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Inside the Parisian Cafe for Subversives and Whistleblowers
The Dissident Club is a meeting spot for insubordinate minds in exile.
A Thai Dissident Was 'Kidnapped' in Cambodia. Protesters and the UN Want Answers.
At least eight Thai activists have similarly vanished abroad since Thailand's military coup in 2014, some of whom later turned up brutally murdered.
China’s Most Controversial Cartoonist Fears He Could Disappear at Any Moment
It's been a year since the Chinese Government uncovered Badiucao's identity. Since then, the Melbourne-based artist has been the victim of stalking, cyber attacks, and a possible home invasion.
Turkey and Greece Are Working Together to Punish Dissidents
An arrest of suspected terrorists trying to go from Greece to Turkey is giving the Greek cops an excuse to crack down on anarchists, while Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan gets more paranoid about "foreign plotters."
In Vietnam, "Depraved" Blogging Could Get You Locked Up for a Decade
On May the 16th, another blogger, Dinh Nguyen Kha, was sentenced to ten years in jail for "distributing anti-State propaganda" and "deliberately causing injuries."
Ai Weiwei Still Knows How to Piss Off the Chinese Government
A friend of his just made a film about him called "Never Sorry." The movie follows the artist around for several years from 2008 and ends shortly after Weiwei returns from a shady 81-day disappearance/detention.