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Le Cong Dinh
13. June, 2009VIETNAM: Lawyer and dissident writer arbitrary detained 16 June 2009 RAN 25/09 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN is seriously concerned about the detention of Le Cong Dinh, lawyer and dissident writer arrested on 13 June 2009. The authorities have charged him with ‘spreading propaganda against the state’, which carries a twenty
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Horst Mahler
21. February, 2009Horst Mahler is currently serving a 12-years sentence for ‘Volksverhetzung’ (‘inciting popular hatred’) and Holocaust denial. http://henrymakow.com/2015/06/nazi-granny-faces-jail.html On February 21, 2009, Mahler was sentenced by a Munich court to six years’ imprisonment without possibility of reduction or bail. During the reading of the verdict, the judge said that Mahler had proven “not able to be
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Nguyen Van Ly
30. March, 2007Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest and dissident who has been under house arrest since 19 February, accused of “hostile propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.” “We are very worried about these three dissidents and, in general, about all the pro-democracy activists who signed the ’Bloc 8406’ petition in their real names,” the
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Le Thi Cong Nhan
8. March, 2007.03.07 – Two lawyers and cyber-dissidents arrested for “hostile propaganda” Reporters Without Borders today urged Hanoi-based diplomats to seek the release of Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, both lawyers and cyber-dissidents, who were arrested at their homes this morning. Like Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest and dissident who has been
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Nguyen Van Dai
8. March, 2007.03.07 – Two lawyers and cyber-dissidents arrested for “hostile propaganda” Reporters Without Borders today urged Hanoi-based diplomats to seek the release of Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, both lawyers and cyber-dissidents, who were arrested at their homes this morning. Like Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest and dissident who has been
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Alf Enerström
19. March, 2004During the early 1980s the physician Alf Enerström became well-known because of his advertisements attacking the leader of the Social democratic Party, Olof Palme. The ads were signed “The Opposition in the Social Democratic Party” and Enerström claimed to represent real Social Democracy, as he stated that the main party had its basic goals corrupted
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Stephen Downs
3. March, 2003NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall. According to the criminal complaint filed Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing
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