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Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch-American political activist and author
Ai Weiwei
Chinese Conceptual artist (born 1957)
Ingrid Betancourt
Colombian-French politician
Loujain al-Hathloul
Saudi Arabian activist
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Nigerian social rights activist (1941–1995)
Zhou Xuan
Chinese actress and singer (1920-1957)
Ai Qing
Chinese poet (1910-1996)
Aminatou Haidar
Sahrawi political activist
Orlando Letelier
Chilean economist and diplomat (1932-1976)
Abdul Rahman
staff member for a Catholic non-governmental aid group
Shiori Itō
Japanese journalist
Alla Bayanova
Russian singer (1914–2011)
Ion Negoițescu
Romanian writer and historian (1921–1993)
108 Martyrs of World War II
roman Catholic martyrs in Poland during WWII
Khalid El-Masri
German torture victim
Fu Lei
Chinese writer (1908-1966)
Samira Ibrahim
Women's rights activist
Rina Gonoi
Japanese judoka and former soldier
Bai Hong
Chinese actor and singer (1920-1992)
Assita Kanko
Belgian politician
Safiya Hussaini
Nigerian woman accused of adultery
Janek Wiśniewski
Polish worker
Lizzie van Zyl
South African child prisoner
Abu Zubaydah
Saudi Arabian Guantanamo detainee (born 1971)
DJ Soda
South Korean DJ
Murat Kurnaz
Turkish citizen; held in extrajudicial detention by the United States
Ding Zilin
Chinese dissenter
Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang
Guatemalan anthropologist
Otto René Castillo
Guatemalan poet and revolutionary (1936–1967)
Tsarong Dazang Dramdul
Tsarong Dasang Dramdul (1888–1959), commonly known mononymously as Tsarong or by his title Tsarong Dzasa, was a Tibetan politician and general in the Tibetan Army. He was a close aide of the 13th Dalai Lama and played an important role in the early twentieth century politics of Tibet. Eager to accelerate economic progression and pursue the modernization of Tibet, Tsarong believed that the old order in Tibet had to be broken by hierarchical reforms to prepare the way for a more modern society which would be compatible with the outside world. In his efforts to build up Tibet's defense systems an
Chuni Kotal
Indian Dalit anthropologist
Omar Benjelloun
Journalist, politician, victim of torture
Nguyen Van Ly
Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest
Rogelia Cruz Martinez
Guatemalan activist and model
Noura Hussein
Sudanese child bride
Ali Salem Tamek
Moroccan activist
Volodymyr
Ukrainian bishop (1925–1995)
Ma Thida
Burmese activist (born 1966)
Nien Cheng
Chinese writer (1915-2009)
María Chinchilla Recinos
Guatemalan teacher (1909-1944)
Edik Baghdasaryan
Armenian journalist
Edward Mosberg
Polish holocaust survivor
Boris Weisfeiler
Russian mathematician
Duplessis Orphans
Canadian children who were wrongly classified as mentally ill by the Quebec government
Ali Shallal al-Qaisi
survivor of US torture
Lê Công Định
Vietnamese lawyer
Samira Saleh al-Naimi
Iraqi human rights activist and lawyer
Abdellatif Zeroual
Moroccan politician (1951–1974)
Karl Wilhelm Fricke
German journalist
Hoda Ali
British activist
Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac
Dutch French Resistance member (1919–2001)
Salim Hamdan
Guantanamo detainee
John Dawson Dewhirst
Executed British adventurer
Nguyen Quoc Quan
Vietnamese activist
Urairat Soimee
Cause celebre
Mamdouh Habib
former Guantanamo detainee
Wieland Förster
German sculptor and painter (born 1930)
Ramzan Khadzhiev
Chechen writer (1955-1996)
Bhai Mati Das
Indian Sikh martyr