the w mines we say they're never giving up every weekend on d. w. the writers everywhere, fight autocrats and dictators with words. books can reprogram you emotionally, changing your attitude and making you partisan upset an idea or involve terrible to the stage propaganda. worldwide. hundreds of riders are sitting in jail subjected to persecution or living in exile. you're about to 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, do not still the face still writing in a die, and i won't give them an pleasure. see me. solomon rushed also refuses to be silenced. despite almost being stab to death. the struggle goes on the or 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,

just trying to write this trans 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 all 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 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 know all these explanations. i think

they see a 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 i'm a to, to make people afraid of, of objecting 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, did sign in some of the decades of practice. i'm 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 liked the what dribble, i refuse to be sub jude and subjected and silenced 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 its tough new anti l g b t q plus legislation. according to these new laws, those deemed to be serial. offenders could be punished with the death penalty. uganda is one of the world's porous countries. for years still in the ones he 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 her homeland. i had had enough persecution. i've had enough imprisonment. i've 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 any and you've gone

to an establishment, posting them online 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 i just was my paying to right. a hungry mother whose stomach is going good. good and has 3 children whose stomachs are going good. good. not try to have to pull him about food. right. but it's not just anger that dr. ser, for me 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 ideas. it said them, 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 spar 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 africa, clothes, you're going to call him a pair of bucks in a piece of writing on space book not even published. and he to cut to dave the one word was lifting the left finger to very puff with money. a money in the country where people can look less than you more because they steer him. so the power of rating to invite montgomery and left stuff from the masses. a few weeks later, still in the onset 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 uganda, perhaps once her children have grown up. she knows the fight is not over yet. words are the only victors. the attempt on 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 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, 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

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, a, 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 the 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. this is a place you cannot stay outside the circle of politics because politics is not in certain places in your daily life and you're still 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 up and translated into more than 40 languages. and he's not president of the writers association, 10 international so it minutes has since returned to turkey and lives 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 and based on both beloved gaze, the pardon spread to become nationwide pro test area one brutally quashed them. and in 2016, a build military coup led to mass arrests. 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 they are pressing cottage. and people are left to bring people and women, l g, b, t, people, writers with democratic means to accept that mixture just in your society and create a common surprise. you know that topics for,

for everyone. but the majority of the gm's, it's this idea for me is this novel. it's 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 are the ones regime continues to feel threatened by writers to the writers. feel scared to of course, next year. and 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 part on your team. on the inside of the people, i think you're cross that line. this is even, i'm scared, i get 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. what took fools me such pain in nicaragua, writers assumed power after the 1979 revolution. sandinista rebels put an end to the sum, most of the family dictatorship and decades of civil war. and they over through uninstalled seo, some of the deposit 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 were involved in it. and so that's why, you know, people come to the get our, i'm at my or what we were doing, the literacy campaign 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 1970 by. then she published her 1st poems and was living and back. so when she was sentenced to a long jail term only after the sandinista victory did, she returned in nicaragua. busy he wasn't very who 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 and power. it became a cult book for an entire generation. the. in the meantime, daniel ortega was elected president of nicaragua. writers, certainly,

or i mean is seeing 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 contracts are 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, muddy, or you'll come to bailey and other former comrades have long distance themselves from him. we wanted more democracy. we think something useful and we wanted to stop by a lens and we wanted to change a motor nice party, and he 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 their husband. our 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 very keeps fighting because she still believes in the power of words. her words. i believe that except 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 glove 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 agent's 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 and 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 fights against mutants pretty soon battling his own people. the conflicts involve old ideological rips, communists versus nazis to cause. 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 writing repeating data is primary at that size is the resume has started to

create this, this a propaganda machine. that was convinced russians that there isn't it said the war between russia in the west that makes a stand show of 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 the soviet 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 there 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. because he 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 stated with my own eyes the, the birth of a generation that was completely um i would say a globalized a 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. despite all this session from government scramble to retain their games, like in 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 future ultimately lies. what 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 to 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

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