Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who reported stories related to COVID-19 from Wuhan starting in February…

WikiLeaks’ publications have had enormous impact worldwide. They have shed light upon a vast array…

Bernardo Caal Xol is a Maya Q’eqchi’ Indigenous community leader and teacher who is behind…

Jimmy Lai , 73, founder of Next Digital media group and its now defunct flagship newspaper, Apple Daily, and 2020 RSF Press…

Claudia Mo, 64, a former Hong Kong Legislative Council member and former journalist, who was a…

Yahaya Sharif Aminu, a 22-year old singer at risk of execution after being sentenced to…

Dr. Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder of the now disbanded Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA),…

Senator Leila de Lima surrendered on 24 February 2017 to the Philippine National Police (PNP)…

Ibrahim is a researcher at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), where he…

Itai Peace Dzamara, a journalist and pro-democracy activist, was taken on the morning of 9…

Human rights lawyer sentenced to four-year imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power”. Yu had…

Russian civil society and political activist and the local leader of Pastafarians (or followers of…

Co-leader alongside presidential opposition candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Currently in detention facing criminal charges after avoiding…

Senator Leila de Lima surrendered on 24 February 2017 to the Philippine National Police (PNP)…

Shahnewaz Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi engineer and activist, could face up to 10 years in prison…

Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Solidarity address Chan Chi-chuen C/O People Power Room…

Ventus Lau Wing-hong has been active in politics since he was a student. He was…

Raif Badawi is a human rights activist and the founder of an online forum for…

Belarusian human rights defender and coordinator of the Volunteer Service of the Human Rights Center…

Leung Kwok-hung co-founded the League of Social Democrats in 2006 and served as a member…

Joshua Wong, activist and former secretary-general of the now disbanded pro-democracy group Demosisto, was sentenced…

Ruba Asi is a sociology student at Birzeit University. She was arrested in July 2020…

Along with many human rights defenders, Ding was taken away by police on 26 December…

Tam Tak-chi is vice-president of the People Power party and a former radio host. He…

Human rights lawyer and prisoner of conscience Buzurgmekhr Yorov has languished in prison with little…

Founder and director of the Sichuan-based human rights website “64 Tianwang”, detained fore more than 4…

Omar Al-Kiswani is a student and elected president of the student council at Birzeit University.

Khitam Sa’afin, 57 years old, is a social worker, active feminist, human rights defender, grandmother,…

Atta Khattab is a Palestinian activist, dancer, and head choreographer at El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance…

Hasan Yousef is a Palestinian Legislative Council member and has been a target for the…

Rebhi Karaja is a social and behavioural science student at Birzeit University. He was previously…

Zeynab Jalalian is an Iranian Kurdish woman serving a life sentence following a grossly unfair…

Marwan Barghouti played a key role in facilitating education, where he started the prisoners’ remote…

Frenchie Mae Cumpio, the editor of the Eastern Vista news website was arrested on 7 February,…

Pham Doan Trang was arrested in her Ho Chi Minh City apartment on the night of…

On the evening of September 24, 2019, Iranian Intelligence Ministry agents raided the home of…

Waleed Abu al-Khair is a Saudi Arabian lawyer and the founder and director of Monitor…

Eskinder Nega is a prominent Ethiopian journalist, dissident politician and leading pro-democracy activist who has…

Ekpar Asat is a 34-year old Uyghur tech entrepreneur and founder of the largest media…

Aasif Sultan is a Kashmiri journalist working for the Kashmir Narrator monthly. He was arrested on…

Ilham Tohti, an economics professor at Central University for Nationalities (Minzu University) in Beijing, the founder…

Student sentenced to 10years in prison on terrorism-related charges for making a joke. Solidarity address…

Nigerian national Sulaimon Olufemi was among hundreds of foreign nationals from Somalia, Ghana and Nigeria…

Bushra Taweel is a journalist, photographer, and human rights defender documenting Israeli violations against Palestinian…

The editor of the daily newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum, Suleiman Raissouni is facing a possible ten-year…

Omar Radi, human rights defender and investigative reporter who covers sensitive stories, Radi was accused of…

Chairman of TV channel 4Shabab (closed by the Saudi authorities), talk-show personality, cleric and currently also…

Esraa Abdelfattah (no link with Alaa Abdelfattah) to prominence by covering the Tahrir Square protests and…

Alaa Abdelfattah is a blogger and a human rights defender who is an eminent figure of…

Esteban Rodríguez was detained on April 30 by the Cuban regime and was infected with COVID-19…

Roland Carreño was arrested on October 26, 2020 and indicted without evidence on charges of conspiracy,…

Journalist for Krym.Realii, the local branch of US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Crimea,…

Aleksandr Valov is the editor of the Blog Sochi news website. Despite a lack of material…

Remzi Bekirov is one of the first Crimean Solidarity civic journalists, reporting on armed searches, arrests…

Abdulmumin Gadjiev is a journalist of the weekly newspaper Chernovik, accused of financing terrorism. His colleagues…

A former journalist with the Ingush news website Fortanga, Rashid Maysigov was taken from his home…

Aleksandr Dorogov was persecuted for investigating police corruption, along with his colleague Yan Ketelevskiy. They are…

Yan Katelevskiy was persecuted for investigating police corruption, along with his colleague Aleksandr Dorogov. They are…

A former journalist of the daily paper Kommersant, Ivan Safronov is the author of many sensational…

Otabek Sattory covers alleged local corruption in the city of Termez, in February 2021, a Termez…

Editor of the Xeberman and Press-az news websites, Aslanov was arrested in June 2019 and was…

Editor-in-chief of the country's leading independent media outlet TUT.BY. She was detained in May 2021, in the…

Journalist and activist. He created “BY_help”, a crowd-funding platform set up to assist participants in the…

In February 2021, Katsiaryna Andreyeva and Daria Chultsova, two journalists working for Belast were sentenced to 2…

In February 2021, Katsiaryna Andreyeva and Daria Chultsova, two journalists working for Belast were sentenced to 2…

Chen Jieren, 49, anti-corruption journalist, was sentenced in April 2020 to 15 years in prison for…

Siddique Kappan was arrested on 5 October, 2020 while travelling from New Delhi to Uttar Pradesh…

Ros Sokhet, the publisher of the Cheat Khmer (“Khmer Nation”) newspaper, was arrested on 25 June,…

Sok Oudom, the owner and manager of Rithisen radio in Kampong Chhnang City, 95 km north…

Murugupillai Kokulathasan, a freelance journalist in Sri Lanka was arrested on 28 November, 2020. He is…

Jailed arbitrarily since July 29, 2016, Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké, is being prosecuted on a charge…

Yahaya Sharif Aminu, a 22-year old singer at risk of execution after being sentenced to death…

Dawit Isaak is an Eritrean-Swedish journalist, playwright and poet. He returned to Eritrea in the mid-90s…

Algerian journalist Rabah Kareche published an article covering a protest staged by the Tuareg population…

Yan Sidorov is a prisoner of conscience who was arrested and detained simply for trying…

Jehova's Witness sentenced to six years in a penal colony for “organizing the activities of…

Aleksei Navalny is a Russian politician, blogger and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK in…

Peacefully opposing the Russian occupation of Crimea and has been actively involved in the monitoring…

Ismail Isaev has been detained on spurious charges of “aiding and abetting an illegal armed…

Salekh Magamadov has been detained on spurious charges of “aiding and abetting an illegal armed…

Sam Cheung is the current District Councillor representing the San Hui District and a member…

Dr. Andrew Chiu has been serving as a member of the Eastern District Council for…

Owen Chow Ka-shing studied for a Bachelor of Nursing with Honours in General Health Care…

Eddie Chu was a former LegCo member between 2016 and 2020. After graduating from the…

Andy Chui founded the “Umbrella Fathers and Mothers” during the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and…

Gary Fan Kwok-wai is a graduate of San Francisco State University. He started his political…

Frankie Fung participated in the District Council election in 2019 for Lung Shing district. He…

Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam is a journalist. She obtained a master degree in Journalism through the…

Lam was a senior figure in the Democratic Party. His political career started in 1999…

Nathan Lau is a student activist, a former President of the Hong Kong Shue Yan…

Kinda Li Ka-tat is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong. He was a…

Ng Kin-wai is a social activist. In 2019, he ran against a pro-Beijing incumbent and…

Carol was the chairwoman of the Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU) and the British Airways…

Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit Sham was elected to the Sha Tin District Council during the 2019…

Lester Shum Ngo-fai was born in New York in the United States. He moved to…

Roy Tam Hoi-pong was elected as a District Council for the New Territories West constituency…

Andrew Wan Siu-kin graduated from the City University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor degree…

Henry Wong graduated from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor of…

Wu Chi-wai received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin…

Tiffany Yuen was the Vice Chairperson of Demosistō before quitting the party in 2018. She…

In October 2019, Vladislav Mordasov and his friend Yan Sidorov were found guilty of “attempted…

Blogger, founder of Free Saudi Liberals forum. He has been detained since 17 June 2012 and…