List of human rights 'Did you know?'s

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 GÃ³mez'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:BogotÃ¡ 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 JamaÃ¯ 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 YurtÃ§u?
... 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 fiancÃ©?
... 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?

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... 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:lÃ¨se majestÃ© 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 cinÃ©ma 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 ErdoÄŸan to investigate the treatment of imprisoned Wikipedia:conscientious objector Wikipedia:Ä°nan SÃ¼ver?
... 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:GodeliÃ¨ve 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?

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