Video journalist Hla Hla Win was sentenced to 27 years in jail in Burma for interviewing a monk during the 2007 ‘Saffron Revolution’ failed uprising.
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The documentary Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour, recorded before Ai’s arrest, provides cultural and political context to his provocative work, as well as a glimpse into the artist’s life.
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Nery Jeremías Orellana is one of 12 journalists killed in the last 18 months in Honduras. A supporter of recently ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Orellana was a member of the Popular Resistance Front, an opposition movement.
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Hu Jia, a political activist imprisoned since 2008, was released by Chinese authorities on June 26, 2011. He reunited with his wife, Zeng Jinyan, a well-known activist blogger.
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Two poems from A Lifetime Is a Promise to Keep: Poems of Huang Xiang translated by Michelle Yeh. Huang Xiang is an exiled poet from poem and a former writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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Liao Yiwu, an internationally acclaimed writer best known for his work The Corpse Walker, successfully fled China on July 6th and is now free to publish again.
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In this interview, Tagarira talks to Sampsonia Way about President Robert Mugabe, the different means of illustrating a message, and the psychology of discrimination.
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