On June 22, twenty-one Bahraini bloggers, human rights activists, and political activists were found guilty of plotting to topple the Bahraini monarchy.
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In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp chronicles Er Tai Gao’s life under the political persecution of China’s Communist government. Read an excerpt of the memoir.
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Two poems from Meena Kandasamy’s Ms. Militancy, a poetry collection that retells Hindu and Tamil myths from a feminist and anti-caste perspective. Kandasamy uses her poetry like a scalpel to dismantle stereotypes.
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Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, who stars as Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson’s film The Lady was deported by the authorities in Yangoon, Burma.
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In this video, poet Yusef Komunyakaa describes his revision process, talks about the importance of silence in poetry, and dispenses advice for young poets. The video was created by Sampsonia Way magazine and published also by Rattapallax.
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Tibetan activist Tsering Woeser documents Tibetan writers and teachers who have been arrested or imprisoned since 2008 by authorities in Sichuan province, China.
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Video testimony of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi before US Congress. The pro-democracy advocate had been detained for 15 years by Burma’s ruling military junta. We also publish a transcript of her testimony.
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