The Chinese practice of institutionalizing dissidents is coming more to light. This small article about a farmer Xu Lindong. who dared to challenge authority, was placed in a mental hospital and then was released after 6 1/2 years with $43,000 in damages. There is an increase in protests and activism there as well as a … Read more
Blacklisted from academia and barred from publishing in China, Mr. Liu has been harassed and detained repeatedly since 1989, when he stepped into the drama playing out on Tiananmen Square by staging a hunger strike and then negotiating the peaceful retreat of student demonstrators as thousands of soldiers stood by with rifles at the ready. … Read more
Natalia Kolyada last year. Listen to her story. She is living this now. The corrupt government of Belarus have abandoned all pretense of being anything but a gestapo regime. The recent stolen election by Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, (dig that mustache. Some people you don’t have to draw) who claims to have won by 79% of … Read more
