the turing mother in law styles the terrain, and we're left a street meeting people victory. we dw the writers everywhere, fight autocrats and dictators with words. the books can reprogram you emotionally, changing your attitude and making you parts is in a certain idea or involves terrible to the stage propaganda. world wide hundreds of riders are sitting in jail subjected to persecution or living in exile . part of my fear about me, it's my, what can they keep writing after being threatened or driven out of their country? even though i'm scared to say things that i should see you to knoxville,

the facebook writing, then i die and i won't give them the pleasure of seeing me solomon rushed also refuses to be silenced. despite almost being stabbed to death. the struggle goes on the sometimes it's just a poem that angers powerful people for an interview, or in the case of salman rushdie, a novel, the satanic verses was written as satire, but read by some as blaspheming proof that writers live dangerously. we oh, we get news, right? just trying to write this germs, journalist from different countries and letting us know that they are actually the,

the reason for this, i think the role is going and downside in many countries. the politics off, able to attack the on the some and getting popularity and the powers australia with expression. we came 813 writers from china. iran allow we, turkey and of their countries are currently at risk. according to writers association pen. its freedom to right index listed 311 writers in prison world wide in 2022. why do writers provoke such fear and hatred? especially in powerful people? and it's very strange because russians have no obvious explanation. i think they fear alternative versions of the world. now i think one of the things about

authoritarian name is there's wants to impose its own version of the world to the exclusion of all others. and to, to make people afraid of, of objection to that. and of course, the points about russia is that everybody has, all writers have their own version of the world. and, and so, and sometimes those don't please people in power. and so they tried to, to sign in some of the decades of practice. i am a 5 star general of pricing. my deepest calls from writing on metals of on. we've talked nissans in green. did they not allow? i'm sure our troops at the dictators words are still in the ends, these weapons. and the poets, an activist, has no intention of keeping quiet. she's long been one of the most vocal critics of

you've gone to as president most of any who came to power in 1986 and rules the country with an iron fist. i'm a ripple. i like the what dribble, i refuse to be sub jude and subjected and silenced you're gone to declared its independence in 1962. but is this east african country really free? since 1986, it's been under most of amy's autocratic rule. numerous laws, hender freedom of speech, critics are intimidated, abducted, and imprisoned. you've gone to recently made headlines for its tough new anti l g b t q plus legislation. according to these new laws, those team to beat serial offenders could be punished with the death penalty. uganda is one of the world's porous countries. for years still in the, on the has bought for the rights of marginalized groups, minorities women,

and the l. g b t q plus community. but she's paid a high price for her activism. for almost 2 years. she's lived in eggs island, germany, thousands of miles from our homeland. i had had enough persecution. i'd had enough imprisonment. i had had enough insults and threats and the constant trailing of my car, my children's car, the rains in my house, i had had enough persecution. and accusation, simply because i was criticizing the government. right. so i left. because it was too dangerous for dissidents, such as me to stay new guns. why does she risk so much? why does she keep writing angry poems about president most of amy and you've gone to an establishment, posting them on line time?

and again, how do i say i had a lot of ongoing because i lived in, in a country that just made me hungry. i, i think i took the pain of the people and it was my pain too. right. a hungry mother whose stomach is going good. good and has 3 children whose stomachs are going good. good. i'm not right to have to play them about food. right. but it's not just anger that dr. ser, for any on the reading and writing means so much more. writing invites you to come in and read was invited to stop and listen. listen attentively. did she say that? did she write that? why did you write that? writing kind of get different responses, let's think together. argue with me. i'm persuading, he's refusing on persuading, i'm engaging with the idea. as it said, done. you know, it's towards, yeah, yeah,

yeah. words that most of a need clearly considers dangerous. that's because the onsite uses them to mobilize the masses and spirit protests after calling the president the parent, but extend a poem on facebook. she was jailed for the 1st time. so for her, it felt like a trial. there's a president in the franco integrated because you're going to call him a pair of bucks in a piece of writing on facebook, not even published. and he to cut to dave the one word was lifting the left finger to very pulse with money. a money in the country where people can look less than you will because they still he. so the power of rating to invite montgomery and left stuff from the months is a few weeks later still in the onsite was freed only to be jailed again soon after she spent 16 months in a maximum security prison in awful conditions. during that time are children and

other family members were threatened. the shame stays with you. so what is home when it's too dangerous for my loved ones and my family? do i want to go back and become a danger? so why should home be dangerous? because a right force delanie on z living and exile doesn't mean keeping quiet or giving up . she plans to return to you, gone to perhaps once her children have grown up, she knows the fight is not over yet. words are the only victors. the attempt on solomon rush these life in august 2022 took everyone by surprise. the buck while issued against the rider 33 years before had largely been forgotten. so the world looked on in shock when rushed. he was stabbed with a knife and gravely injured at a public lecture. in 1989, it runs supreme liter,

ayatollah khomeini claimed to rush the head, disparage the prophet mohammed in his novel, the satanic verses, and issued the thought was bordering muslims, to kill the rider. this triggered protest world wide and the murder of the books, japanese translator potosi, the god ashi rushed to himself, lost an eye and suffered severe injuries in the 2022 assassination attempt. a year later, salman rushdie was on tour and giving interviews in frankfort. he was awarded the peace prize of the german book trade, rusty focused on his latest novel victory city. finished before the attack on his life. it's the tale of an indian kingdom in which all religions are permitted. and women have more or less equal rights. the book can be read as a plea for freedom of speech. something salman rushdie himself has on a winningly come to symbolize. i don't feel like

a symbol of thought. i feel like a working rush. it. and that i'm by no means the only riser in the world who has been threatened or attacked. and unfortunately, a, this is a phenomenon that is going on through history and it doesn't show any signs of stopping. so we have to fight against it. that's the only thing to do, keep to keep going. who is there apart from poets who can break that vicious circle? who is there left apart from poets who spoken the language of death and who promised people the infinity of truth. then the bound looseness of desire. turkey also has a history of repression against the authors, intellectuals and journalists against those who question the party line. and those who like salman rushdie and still in the on the refuse to be intimidated by you, was born and grew up in taxi. this is a place you cannot stay outside the circle politics because politics is not in

certain places in your daily life and your speed in your house. that means your travels in your own country and other places. oh, good on son. this is curtis. he was 1st arrested in 1984 after the turkish military, too, was still a student back then, the military threw half a 1000000 people in jail. many were tortured in 1996 son. this been working as a human rights lawyer was almost beaten to death by the police. he fled to britain and started writing. his books have been translated into more than 40 languages, and he's not president of the writers association. 10 international minutes has since returned to turkey and lived there on and off. he's witnessed the transformation of hair to one 1st hand from promising prime minister in 2003 to today's motor credit president. someone who tolerates no opposition like in 2013,

when demonstrations against the construction project in houston bowls beloved gaze the pardon, spread to become nationwide, protest air to one brutally crushed them. and in 2016, a failed military coup, let to mass arrest thousands of people with jail for allegedly supporting the attempt, including many writers and journalists who is 9. and also they use the under pressure. there is a position groups against intellectuals. that's no surprise that there are pressing cottage and people there. let's bring people and women l g b, t people, writers. the democratic means to accept that mixture just in your society and create a common and surprise you know that topics for, for everyone. but the will to obtain a use it's this idea from this novel is tumble as dental speaks of the

confines of jail and prisoners boundless dreams. though it's not a political book. still something has received death threats. president, they're the ones regime continues to feel threatened by writers. do the writers feel scared to, of course, next year and even got enough care for yourself for your family, you know, for your loved ones. and both on the other hand, and in certain places certain times that she is not the part on your table. because inside of the people, i think you're crushed up by it is even i'm scared to say the things that i should say. it's not still, though it's an uneven fight, a whole regime against one writer with only words to defend him.

closer you nicaragua took fools me such pain. in nicaragua, writers assumed power after the 1979 revolution. sandinista rebels put an end to the sum most of family dictatorship and decades of civil war. and they, over through anastasio somoza divided this revolution was supposed to bring about real change and corruption, promot, humane socialism and education for all i think is some of the energy. and the beauty of that revolution came from the fact that so many artists, the waiting volt that you need. and so that's why, you know, you both come to the get our, i'm a and my are what we were doing. they lead 0 to seek of being for example. so we had that energy and that energy a made people for the revolution to conduct bailey scene here with priest and co

which connects to card and had already joined the sandinista national liberation front in 1917 by then she published her 1st poems and was living in exile when she was sentenced to a long jail term only after the sandinista victory did, she returned and he cut off why. busy he wasn't very hope food came for 1988 novel. the inhabited woman is based on our own experiences. fighting with the revolutionaries, as well as being a tale of self empowerment. it became a cult book for an entire generation. the. in the meantime, daniel ortega was elected president of nicaragua. writers says your i mean is seen here on the left was his vice president, potent priest,

and that's still cutting out the martinez served as minister of culture. but that didn't bring peace to nicaragua. the contrast a right wing rebel group waged by with campaigns against the new leaders in 1990 an anti sent denise to coalition when the general election, the people were wary of war. 16 years and 3 failed attempts later, ortega returned to power. determined to hold onto it for himself and his wife and the p. rosario moody, or you'll come to bailey and other former comrades have long distance themselves from him. we wanted more democracy. we think somebody small and we wanted to stop by a lens and we wanted to change a motor, nice the party and you refused to do all of that. in 2018 nicaraguans, protested the president and his corrupt clan, the regimes response was brutal. hundreds of people were killed and critics jailed

under or take up the former freedom fighter nicaragua had become a dictatorship. does he really in ways are not allowed happen right now going to get, oh, we are not allowed for the test. we are not allowed to launch the streets. you in a religious processions have been for been because they're afraid of people going on the streets, they control embracing. and so it's very hard for people to, to or that nice to change these. so i don't know what's going to happen since 2021 . your conduct, bailey, has lived in exile with her husband. friends had advised her not to return home from a trip following a wave of arrests, but sent countless regime critics to jail. then things got even worse. in february 2023 or take us government strips, the 300 opponents of the regime of their citizenship and confiscated their property

. bailey was among them, belong with fellow writer and exile, says she o ramirez. it's like they did march your life, your memories, your, they are the are taking possession of the most in too much. then you have a life which is the place where you live, live for many, many years. that's basically what, what they're doing. and i feel very devastated. still, she has no intention of giving up. barely keeps fighting because she still believes in the power of words. her words. i believe that it said powerful. and then the dictators, are they afraid of a free speech? we have the word. we have a for, we have people listen to us and then, and we have an international also access to tell the story of what's going on in the get our and,

and so they don't make that. good lord. what a splendid hearing we ruined. on the morning of february 24th 2022 dmitri club ski realized nothing in his life would ever be the same. it was the day russian troops invaded ukraine. launching a war. did you say? i saw it myself. this moment of truth right now, all the criticisms that have done before was let's say for free to me. i didn't have to pay any substantial costs. this time the cost will be and i'm done a probably never going to be able to go, so go back to russia and i'm probably going to lose whatever i owe in there. and probably it's going to be something worse. it did indeed get worse,

although kosky immediately left. russia now lives in exile in europe. the last year they have declared me to for an agents journalist have integrated for an ages . and then the repressive legislation moves forward. that right now they, they are warning that they are going to be in hardening this legislation, making everyone who's spreading the message report agents responsible for it. in august 2023 click kosky was sent in list and up censure to 8 years in a prison camp. as in recent years, russian president vladimir has had almost all opponents who are too great a threat to him in prison. the most prominent example is kremlin critic alexis of all name whose present camp sentence has repeatedly been extended with new trials. dimitri go, kosky is well known, both in russia and the rest of the world. his 2007 to still be in novel metro 2033

was a global best seller. it's set in the future in which moscow has been destroyed by a nuclear file and the survivors live underground. then a subway trains on the book is now called classic and was the basis for several successful video games. blue cross ski is also written to sequence that 1st audio, the main character bites against newton's pretty soon battling his own people. the conflicts involved old ideological rips, communists versus nazi's, because he calls the 3rd volume of the series metro 2035 published in 2015. a political manifesto committed to 35, was written up to russia's invasion of crime in and following my observations of how the reference assigned to responded isn't 2014 when lighting opinion. and beta is probably me at that size is the resume has started to create this, this

a propaganda machine. that was convinced russians that there was an internal war between russia in the west that makes a stand show a war that's uh, the values of the russian people are completely contradictory to the rock valley is off the west. because he wasn't early critic of vladimir who was elected president of the russian federation in 2000 and is still in office today interrupted by 4 years between 282012, during which he was prime minister. russia has become a dictatorship under business as good kosky. several wars against the former soviet republics took place during his term of office as an author of this toby and novels because he could remain under the radar for a long time. but in 2022 with the war and ukraine, that'll changed any public criticism of it. any anti war demonstrations were all ban. but none of that stuff, but perhaps keep from protesting against the russian invasion of ukraine and

interviews and his social media accounts. he says the state can band the sale of his books, but not their distribution. on social networks. you can just spread your messages, your books, your stories, you know, those on online media for free without any need of approval or support from the states. the cost is skeptical that russian society will defend itself against repression by pollutants, power structures. his hope lies in the younger generation, which has little interest in the older generations, fantasies of world domination. what's very important to me that i have seen with my own eyes and the, the birth of a generation that was completely and i would say a globalized very friendly towards the west. very open to integrate, saying, and accepting of the global values. dimitry good costs can you believes that there

will only be hope for russia when the old men are no longer in power. dictators try to intimidate riders to brute force in persecution. but pen internationals president believes they won't emerge. victorious disciple this session from a government scramble to the chain. the games, like in the power of their rights, has not been broken. we are still stronger, and i think their legal today, the, and all the attempts to modernize or societies society has always been inspired by the european political and social culture. and i definitely do believe that it's where russia versus future ultimately lies. what prices can do, which they are doing is to try not to correlate the incredible pain the penny. people are feeling right now and a

a to bring that to the world's attention. and i think, i think writers everywhere doing that right now the, my would be with me even when i die. you know, what i was in prison, i wrote on the was that was in solitary confinement. they had handcuffed me, i know is naked, and i thought how they are these people. so i use the handcuffs to write on the was of the solitary confinement present the my dream. so you know, to go back and go back to us luxury. that is a free that were, these tyrants are no longer in power and where we are able to begin the reconstruction and create a system that is respectful of human rights. these riders won't let anyone destroy their dreams, and their words are here to stay. no wonder they strike fear in the hearts of

dictators. but despots come and go. words and thoughts live on the

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