is worldwide and such a busy life you know, is a very difficult journey. and 13 is verify. everything, audio stuff. find out about some on storage, info, migrant, reliable news to migrate the writers everywhere, fight autocrats and dictators with words. books can reprogram you emotionally, changing your attitude and making you part is in a certain idea or involve variable to the stage propaganda. worldwide, hundreds of riders are sitting in jail subjected to persecution or living and anxiety about me. it's my, what can they keep writing after being threatened or driven out of their country?

even i'm scared to say things that i should say knoxville, the facebook writing in a die. and i won't keep the pleasure of seeing me solomon rushed also refuses to be silenced. despite almost being stab to death, the struggle goes on the is sometimes it's just a poem that angers powerful people or 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 only

get news right to spend no right just germs, journalist from different countries and letting us know that they are actually the, the reason for this, i think the room is going and downside in many countries. the politics of able to tatiana is i'm getting popularity and the powers australia with expression we can use 813 writers from china. iran allow we, turkey and other countries are currently at risk. according to writers association pin. it's 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 hope. i think they fear

alternative versions of the world. now i think one of the things about authoritarian name is there's want to impose its own version of the world to the exclusion of all others and active to make people afraid of co, of objectives about an. and of course, the point about russia is that everybody has, all right, is have their own version of the world. and, and so, and sometimes those don't please people in power. and so they try to did sign in some of the decades of practice. i'm a 5 star general of pricing. my deep scores from writing on metals of on. we've talked nissans in green did the them now, i'm sure our troops words are still in the end. these weapons.

and the poet, an activist, has no intention of keeping quiet. she's long been one of the most vocal critics of you guns 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 on silence. you've 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 it's 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've 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 pain 3 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 conduct. right? to happy plan about food. right. but it's not just anger that dr. sir, for the on the reading and writing means so much more. writing invites you to come in and read what's invited to stop and listen. listened attentively. did she say that? did she write that? why did you write that? writing, kind of get different responses. let's think together. i'll get with me. i'm

persuading, he's refusing up a sweet thing. i'm engaged with. the idea is it's a dance. you know, it's towards, yeah, yeah, yeah. words that most of a need clearly considered dangerous. that's because the onsite uses them to mobilize the masses and spur of protest after calling the president the apparent but extend it. problem on facebook. she was jailed for the 1st time, though for her, it felt like a trial. there's a president in africa, clothes, you're going to call him a pair of bucks in a piece of writing on facebook. notes have been published and he to cut to dave the one word was lifting a finger to very pulse with money. a money in the country where people conduct less than you will because the seo he so the power of rating to invite milk already and less stuff from the masses. a few weeks later, still in the unsafe, was freed only to be jailed again soon after. she spent 16 months in

a maximum security prison in the possible 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 the exile doesn't mean keeping quiet or giving up. she plans to return to uganda, perhaps once her children have grown up. she knows the fight is not over yet. words are the only victors. the attempt done selman rushed these life in august to 2022 took everyone by surprise. the fox 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 leader, ayatollah khomeini, claimed to rush the head, disparaged the prophet mohammed in his novel, the satanic verses, and issued the thought was bordering muslims, to kill the rider. this triggered protests to world wide and the murder of the books, japanese translator, petosi, the good ashi rushed to himself, lost an eye and suffered severe injuries and the 2022 assassination attempt. a year later, solomon rusty was on tour and giving interviews in frankfort. he was awarded the peace prize of the german book trade rushed 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

a wittingly come to symbolize. i don't feel like a symbol of god. i feel like a working rush. it and that i'm by no means the only riser in the world who has being threatened or attacked. and unfortunately, the, this is a phenomenon that has gone 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 to promised people the infinity of truth then the boundless and this 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. and this is a place you cannot stay outside the circle politics because politics is not in certain places in your daily life can use in your house. that means your travels in your own country can come to 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 up and translated into more than 40 languages. and he's now president of the writers association, 10 international summit, as has since returned to turkey and lived there on and off. he's witnessed the transformation of air to one firsthand 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 quashed them. and in 2016, a belt military coup led to mass arrests. thousands of people with jail for allegedly supporting the attempt, including many writers and journalists who is right. and also they use the under pressure. there is a position groups against intellectuals. that's no surprise that there are pressing crunch, and people are left to bring people. and women, l g b, t, people, writers with democratic means to accept an extra destiny or society and create a common surprise. you know, i probably prefer for everyone,

but the majority of the gm's age, this idea for me is this novel is tumble as dental speaks, of the confines of jail and prisoners boundless dreams. though it's not a political book still some as 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? even goodness, care for yourself, but 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 priority anymore. cuz inside okay, and people, i think you're cross that line or even i'm scared it 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.

well, so you nicks a rug, lots of fools knew such pain. in nicaragua, writers assumed power after the 1979 revolution. sandinista rebels put an end to the some 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 you main 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 waiting volts in it. and so that's why, you know, you both come to the go, 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 come to bailey scene here with priest and po 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 in nicaragua, the . busy 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 of martinez served as minister of culture. but that didn't bring peace to nicaragua. the contracts are right wing rebel group, waged by with campaigns against the new leaders and 1990 an anti send, an east of coalition, one of 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 b . p goes out of your body or you'll come to bailey and other former comrades have long distance themselves from him. we wanted more democracy. we think somebody as well, 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 his government strips,

300 opponents of the regime of their citizenship and confiscated their property. bailey was among them, belong with fellow rider and exile. sarah she o ramirez. it's like they did march your life, your memories, your, they are the are taking possession of the most into much the you have a life which is the place where you live, lift for many, many years. that's basically what, what they're doing. and i feel that the last date is still, she has no intention of giving up. bailey keeps fighting because she still believes in the power of words. her words. i believe that word said powerful and 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 told myself this moment of truth right now. all the criticisms that have done before was let's say for freight 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 own 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 of any kind of for an ages. and then the repressive legislation moves forward. that right now they, they are warning that they are going to be and hardening this legislation, making everyone who is 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. in recent years, russian president vladimir putin 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 with 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 in a subway trains on the book is now called classic and was the basis for several successful video games. sutkowski is also written to sequels that 1st party of the main character fights against mutants very soon battling his own people. the conflicts involved bold ideological rips, communist versus non seats. to cops, he calls the 3rd volume of the series metro 2035 published in 2015, a political manifesto meditative. 35 was written up to russia's invasion of crime in and following my observations of how the reference assigned to responded is in 2014 when environment fit in. and beta is probably me at the size is the resume has

started to create. is this a propaganda machine that was convinced russians that there isn't it said the war between russia and the west that it's essential war that the values of the russian people are completely contradictory to the rock valley is off. the west kosky was an early critic of vladimir, who was elected president of the russian federation in 2000. and it's still an office today interrupted by 4 years between 282012, during which he was prime minister. russia has become a dictatorship under foot and it says good club ski. several wars against the former soviet republics took place during his term of office as an author of just opium novels. because he could remain under the radar for a long time. but in 2022 with the war in ukraine. that'll changed any public criticism of it. any anti war demonstrations were all bad. but none of that stuck

with pups 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'll 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. as help 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 stated with my own eyes 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 trying to intimidate writers to brute force and persecution. but pen internationals president believes they won't emerge victorious. besides, holy smokes session from government scramble to retain their games, like the power of their rights has not been broken. we are still stronger. i think there would be able to be 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 russia's future ultimately lies. looked writers

can do, which they are doing is to try not to correlate the incredible pain that many 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, it 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 a luxury. that is a free that were, these titans 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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