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List of human rights 'Did you know?'s
From Anarchopedia
Stolen verbatim from Wikipedia:User:Khazar/DYK, who retired after being wikistalked by a user who spammed potentially libelous accusations of plagiarism. The proto-article is too good a reference work to be stuck there in Khazar's userspace, only.
Did you know...?
- ... that Nigerian journalist Nosa Igiebor was held incommunicado for months because his magazine Tell criticised General Wikipedia:Sani Abacha?
- ... that an entire print run of Wikipedia:Svetlana Kalinkina's newspaper was seized by the Belarusian police?
- ... that attackers broke the legs and hands of journalist Tipu Sultan after he implicated a Wikipedia:Bangladeshi MP in an Wikipedia:arson attack on a girls' school?
- ... that Wikipedia:Fadhila Mubarak was arrested by Wikipedia:Bahraini police after approaching a checkpoint with "pro-revolutionary" music playing from her car?
- ... that editor Wikipedia:Pap Saine was imprisoned for sedition after criticizing the Gambian government response to the murder of his co-editor and childhood friend?
- ... that journalist Wikipedia:Musa Muradov was once trapped in a basement for 14 days by damage from an Wikipedia:artillery shell?
- ... that Wikipedia:Cuban journalist Wikipedia:Yndamiro Restano DÃaz was reportedly released from prison at the request of Wikipedia:Danielle Mitterand, the wife of the former Wikipedia:President of France?
- ... that journalist Wikipedia:Freedom Neruda was imprisoned in 1996 for satirizing the Ivorian President, but was named one of the "50 World Press Freedom Heroes" in 2000?
- ... that journalist Wikipedia:Pavel Sheremet triggered a "public row" between Wikipedia:Belarus and Wikipedia:Russia by hopping a border fence?
- ... that eleven of journalist Wikipedia:Ignacio Gómez's colleagues at Wikipedia:El Espectador were murdered in the first fourteen years of his career?
- ... that Tuhama Ma'rouf of the Wikipedia:Syrian Communist Labour Party was designated a Wikipedia:prisoner of conscience by Wikipedia:Amnesty International after her arrest in February 2011?
- ... that Wikipedia:Jineth Bedoya Lima was abducted, tortured, and raped following her reporting on Colombian paramilitary groups?
- ... that Canadian national Wikipedia:Naser al-Raas was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for attending a rally of the Wikipedia:2011 Bahraini uprising?
- ... that Wikipedia:Steven Gan took advantage of a loophole in Malaysian Internet law to create the country's first independent news source?
- ... that International Press Freedom Award laureate Wikipedia:MarÃa Cristina Caballero began reporting for a Wikipedia:Bogotá newspaper at the age of 16?
- ... that journalist Wikipedia:Musa Muradov was once trapped in a basement for 14 days by damage from an Wikipedia:artillery shell?
- ... that Wikipedia:Aboubakr Jamaï went on a Wikipedia:hunger strike after his newspapers were banned in Wikipedia:Morocco?
- ... that former journalist hostage Wikipedia:Terry A. Anderson led a campaign for the release of Turkish editor Wikipedia:Ocak Isik Yurtçu?
- ... that Wikipedia:Amnesty International recruited writers to lobby at the Wikipedia:Edinburgh Festival for the release of the Wikipedia:UAE Five, imprisoned in 2011 for insulting political figures of the Wikipedia:United Arab Emirates?
- ... that journalist Wikipedia:Sony Esteus had his arm broken by the Wikipedia:Port-au-Prince police while covering a story?
- ... that following Wikipedia:Galima Bukharbaeva's eyewitness account of the Wikipedia:Andijan massacre, the Uzbek government charged her with providing "informational support to terrorism"?
- ... that journalist Wikipedia:Yelena Masyuk was held hostage in Wikipedia:Chechnya for 101 days?
- ... that the wife of Wikipedia:Guatemalan journalist Wikipedia:Byron Barrera was murdered in 1990 in an unsuccessful attempt on his life?
- ... that Wikipedia:Thepchai Yong won an International Press Freedom Award for reporting on Thailand's Black May uprising despite military pressure to censor coverage?
- ... that Wikipedia:anti-communist activist Wikipedia:Gheorghe Briceag pledged to shave his well-known Wikipedia:Solzhenitsyn beard if Moldova united with Romania?
- ... that Wikipedia:Ales Bialatski earned a PhD in Wikipedia:Belarusian literature before becoming the vice president of the Wikipedia:International Federation for Human Rights?
- ... that journalist Wikipedia:Ahmad Taufik was acquitted after being taken to court by both the Wikipedia:Suharto government and Wikipedia:Tomy Winata, one of Indonesia's richest businessmen?
- .. that Wikipedia:Bill Foley's photograph "The Last Smile" shows Wikipedia:Anwar Sadat only moments before his assassination?
- ... that Wikipedia:Beatrice Mtetwa, "Wikipedia:Zimbabwe's top human rights lawyer", has secured the release of reporters from Wikipedia:The New York Times and Wikipedia:The Sunday Telegraph?
- ... that Indonesian journalist Wikipedia:Bambang Harymurti originally wanted to be an Wikipedia:astronaut and qualified as a potential candidate?
- ... that the 2005 Wikipedia:Gwangju Prize winner Wikipedia:Wardah Hafidz was told to vacate her office after disclosing that numerous groups had used social security funds for "money politics"?
- ... that journalist Wikipedia:Ricardo Uceda helped locate the Wikipedia:mass grave of the Wikipedia:La Cantuta massacre victims?
- ... that Burmese journalist Wikipedia:Aung Pwint was imprisoned on charges of "sending news" and "illegal ownership of a fax machine"?
- ... that in 1993, the car of Wikipedia:Algerian journalist Wikipedia:Omar Belhouchet was machine-gunned while he was driving his children to school?
- ... that Wikipedia:Russian journalist Wikipedia:Nadira Isayeva called her 2010 trial "a test for the institution of press freedom" in Wikipedia:Dagestan?
- ... that Wikipedia:Muhammad Al-Saqr won an International Press Freedom Award for his work as a journalist before becoming chairman of the Wikipedia:Arab Parliament?
- ... that Wikipedia:Modeste Mutinga won an international prize for his journalism before being elected to the Wikipedia:Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
- ... that Wikipedia:Civil Courage Prize laureate Wikipedia:Ali Salem was ostracized by the Wikipedia:Egyptian intellectual community following a 1994 book in which he promoted peace with Wikipedia:Israel?
- ... that award-winning journalist Wikipedia:Paul Kamara has also been a priest, a cabinet minister, and the manager of Wikipedia:Sierra Leone's national football team?
- ... that Wikipedia:Dandeniya Gamage Jayanthi founded the group "Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared" following the abduction, shooting, and burning of her fiancé?
- ... that Wikipedia:Jigme Gyatso was re-arrested after his allegations of Wikipedia:torture by Chinese security forces were re-played on Wikipedia:Voice of America?
- ... that the Wikipedia:American Repertory Theater and Wikipedia:System of a Down's Wikipedia:Serj Tankian dedicated their 2011 Wikipedia:Prometheus Bound to jailed Wikipedia:Tibetan filmmaker Wikipedia:Dhondup Wangchen?
- ... that Wikipedia:adivasi activist Wikipedia:Kartam Joga has been accused of joining the deadliest Naxalite attack in India's history?
- ... that the Wikipedia:Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is named for the only Holocaust survivor (pictured) ever to serve in the Wikipedia:United States Congress?
- ... that the Wikipedia:European Parliament issued a resolution condemning the drug arrest of Wikipedia:Azerbaijani activist Wikipedia:Jabbar Savalan?
- ... that Burmese democracy activist Wikipedia:Ohn Than is serving a life sentence for holding up a poster in front of the US Embassy in Wikipedia:Yangon?
- ... that in 2010, Wikipedia:Wipas Raksakulthai became the first Thai man arrested for committing Wikipedia:lèse majesté on Wikipedia:Facebook?
- ... that Wikipedia:Women's League of Burma activist Wikipedia:Khin Ohmar evaded arrest during Wikipedia:Burma's pro-democracy Wikipedia:8888 Uprising when a Wikipedia:Japanese diplomat allowed her and other students to hide from police in his home?
- ... that Wikipedia:Ugandan Rolling Stone editor Wikipedia:Giles Muhame alleged that a gay rights group conspired with Somali terrorist group Wikipedia:Al-Shabaab in the July 2010 Kampala suicide bombings?
- ... that Wikipedia:Khun Htun Oo, a former head of Wikipedia:Burma's Wikipedia:Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, is now serving a 93-year sentence for Wikipedia:treason?
- ... that Wikipedia:Zaw Htet Ko Ko, a photographer for the pro-democracy Wikipedia:88 Generation Students Group, is serving an 11-year prison sentence for his involvement in Wikipedia:Burma's "Wikipedia:Saffron Revolution"?
- ... that in 2008, Burmese 88 Generation democracy activist Wikipedia:Mie Mie was sentenced to 65 years imprisonment for "illegally using electronic media" and "forming an illegal organization"?
- ... that Wikipedia:Yan Yan Chan, whose band Acid released Wikipedia:Burma's first hip hop album, spent nine months in prison for involvement in the pro-democracy group Wikipedia:Generation Wave?
- ... that the journalism of Wikipedia:Siamak Pourzand ranged from film criticism for Wikipedia:Cahiers du cinéma to coverage of the "Chain Murders" of Wikipedia:Iranian dissidents?
- ... that imprisoned Burmese singer Wikipedia:Zayar Thaw's group Wikipedia:Generation Wave distributed anti-government hip-hop and copies of banned movies, including Wikipedia:Rambo IV?
- ... that Wikipedia:Khun Bedu was sentenced to 37 years in prison for offenses including organizing Wikipedia:Loikaw youth to release balloons and rafts in protest of the 2008 Burmese constitutional referendum?
- ... that in 2005, lobbyists attributed Wikipedia:George W. Bush's increased "outspokenness" on Burmese human rights to a 50-minute meeting with Shan activist Wikipedia:Charm Tong?
- ... that Wikipedia:Bono personally lobbied for Turkish prime minister Wikipedia:Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to investigate the treatment of imprisoned Wikipedia:conscientious objector Wikipedia:İnan Süver?
- ... that Wikipedia:Sudanese human rights activist Wikipedia:Mudawi Ibrahim Adam has been imprisoned four times for his work in Wikipedia:Darfur?
- ... that Burmese democracy activist Wikipedia:Aye Aung is serving a 59-year prison sentence for distributing leaflets and organizing protests in Wikipedia:Yangon?
- ... that Wikipedia:Gwangju Prize for Human Rights winner Wikipedia:Angkhana Neelaphaijit has been investigating the Wikipedia:forced disappearance of her husband for more than seven years?
- ... that Wikipedia:Bertrand Teyou is serving two years in jail for attempting to read publicly from his book about Wikipedia:Chantal Biya, the first lady of Wikipedia:Cameroon?
- ... that democracy activist Wikipedia:Htay Kywe was described as Wikipedia:Burma's "most-wanted man" following his leadership role in the 2007 anti-government protests?
- ... that Buddhist monk Wikipedia:U Gambira was sentenced to sixty-three years in prison for his leadership role in Wikipedia:Burma's Saffron Revolution?
- ... that after the Wikipedia:Rwandan Genocide, Wikipedia:social worker and survivor Wikipedia:Godeliève Mukasarasi founded a group to help widows and orphans further their socio-economic rights?
- ... that in 2007, the foundation headed by Guatemalan human rights activist Wikipedia:Norma Cruz helped to convict over 30 individuals accused of murdering women?
- ... that US actor Wikipedia:Martin Sheen has advocated on behalf of imprisoned Kyrgyzstani activist and journalist Wikipedia:Azimzhan Askarov?
- ... that Burmese Wikipedia:prisoner of conscience Wikipedia:Nilar Thein once evaded police capture by Wikipedia:rickshaw taxi?
- ... that Burundian Internet journalist Wikipedia:Jean-Claude Kavumbagu was arrested and charged with treason after writing a blog post criticizing his country's security forces?
- ... that Wikipedia:Filep Karma is serving a 15-year jail sentence for raising the flag of West Papua in Wikipedia:Jayapura, Wikipedia:Indonesia?