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Mikola
Markievich:
Editor Mikola Markievich is serving an 18-month stint of restricted
labor for questioning Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko's
moral suitability as president. (December 23, 2002)
Siamak
Pourzand:
Journalist Siamak Pourzand continues to languish in prison after
being convicted by Iranian authorities on vague charges. (November
20, 2002)
Zouhair
Yahyaoui:
Zouhair Yahyaoui is imprisoned for writing pieces critical of
the Tunisian government on his Web site, TUNeZINE.com.
(October 9,
2002)
U
Win Tin:
Burmese pro-democracy advocate U Win Tin is one of the longest-serving
prisoners on PEN's Writers in Prison Committee Books.
Cheikh
Kone: Ivory Coast journalist Cheikh Kone is one of many languishing
in Australia's detention camps. (July 29, 2002)
Jiang
Weiping:
A profile of one of China's most prominent muckrakers. (July 1,
2002)
Sandra
Hyaira: Zimbabwe's youngest female political editor continues
to fight against President Robert Mugabe. (May 31, 2002)
Coletane
Markham: A profile of a South African journalist who paid
with her life for her courageous fight for social reform. (April
29, 2002)
Ömer
Asan: An acclaimed writer remains imprisoned after publishing
a controversial study of Turkey's Pontus minority. (April 8, 2002)
Tohti
Tunyaz: Dr. Tohti Tunyaz, an academic studying ethnic Chinese,
was imprisoned for espionage by the Chinese government in 1998.
(January 28, 2002)
Anna
Politkovskaya: Russian journalist Anna
Politkovskaya's devastatingly honest stories about Chechnya have
led to death threats against her. (December 4, 2001)
Burak
Bekdil: Journalist Burak Bekdil serves
time in prison for his scathing and satirical editorial pieces
against Turkey's judicial system. (October 26, 2001)
Fikret
Baskaya: Jailed Turkish writer Fikret
Baskaya has fallen victim to the mindset of ethnic hatred that
he has examined in his academic work. (August 31, 2001)
Saad
Eddin Ibrahim:
A world-renowned Egyptian sociologist and former confidant of
President Hosni Mubarak now languishes in prison on what many
observers say are false charges. (July 23, 2001)
Amal
Abbas:
Sudanese newspaper editor Amal Abbas, currently facing another
trial, has paid the price many times for her outspokenness. A
profile by Siobhan Dowd. (June 18, 2001)
Gu
Linna:
Chinese broadcaster and writer Gu Linna is serving a four-year
prison term for refusing to give up her adherence to the Falun
Gong sect. (May 18, 2001)
Anwar
Iqbal: Pakistani journalist Anwar Iqbal was abducted by assailants
who told him, "You write too much." (May 2, 2001)
Akbar
Ganji:
Outspoken Iranian writer and journalist Akbar Ganji, known as
"The Maverick," is serving a ten-year prison term for
attending a controversial conference last year. (February 21,
2001)
Carlos
Cardoso: The murder of one of Mozambique's most colorful journalists
last week put a dark blot on the country's reputation as one of
the few southern African nations with a relatively free press.
(November 28, 2000)
U
Pa Pa Lay and U Lu Za: Two Burmese comedians were arrested
for giving a joke in the wrong place at the wrong time. (November
6, 2000)
Miroslav
Filipovic: Serbian journalist Miroslav Filipovic's analyses
of the political and military situation in Yugoslavia earned him
a seven-year jail term. He is in a military prison in the town
of Nis, in poor health, awaiting an appeal. (September 19, 2000)
Wang
Yiliang: In January, Chinese writer Wang Yiliang was found
guilty of disseminating pornographic material after authorities
found videotaped copies of The Piano and Lady Chatterley's
Lover in his apartment. (August 1, 2000)
Shahla
Lahiji: An Iranian women's rights activist who attended a
conference faces charges of "disparaging the sacred order of the
Islamic Republic." (July 19, 2000)
Rafael
Marques: Young poet and journalist Rafael Marques's recent
criticism of both sides in Angola's brutal civil war have led
to a spell in jail, a death threat, and now a ban on his journalism..
(July 7, 2000)
Deepa
Mehta: Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta finds herself in trouble
again. (April 13, 2000)
Yalçin
Küçük: "My country," said the ebullient writer Yalçin
Küçük, "is for me an enchanting prison." (February 14,
2000)
Jiang
Qisheng: The day after giving a controversial interview to
the Boston Globe, he was arrested. His wife knew he would
be jailed for some time when, a few days later, she was asked
to send him a change of clothes and some money. (January 6, 2000)
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