Aron Atabek is a prize-winning poet and political writer currently in jail in Kazakhstan. His works are highly critical of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan and his policies. Sampsonia Way is proud to present his poem, RE-ZONA-NCE.
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In 2010 Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu was forced to live in the Narita Airport for 92 days while trying to return to China. Now the activist has been stuck under house arrest for 200 days without any legal justification.
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In this week’s Night Watch Israel Centeno presents a searing indictment of media over-saturation and the desensitization it produces.
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Burmese poet, activist, and editor Nyein Thit talks about his experience in prison and his documentaries on Burma’s forced labor camps in this video interview. Nyein Thit also reads his poem “Peace on the Table.”
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Columnist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo profiles Cuban political graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado, who has tattooed his art on his body, transforming it into “a living cry for freedom, something unprecedented in the history of Cuban resistance.”
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Tienchi Martin-Liao profiles Liu Xia in this week’s column. The wife of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo is currently living under house arrest in Beijing. Recently her photography, featuring dolls, was exhibited at the Berlin Literature Festival.
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[Burmese version] Burmese writer and journalist Khet Mar recounts her relationship with her journalism mentor, the respected journalist, editor, and pro-democracy activist Maung Moe Thu.
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