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unusual facts about prisoner of conscience


Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau

Three activists of the Tachikawa Jieitai Kanshi Tentomura had been said to be prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International when they had arrested by police with the PSB investigating them for conducting anti-war activities after illegally entering an SDF housing complex in Tachikawa.


Francis Hong Yong-ho

Francis Hong Yong-ho (Korean: 홍용호 프란치스코, 洪龍浩 프란치스코) (born 12 October 1906 – death unknown, but acknowledged in June 2013) was a Roman Catholic prelate who was imprisoned by the communist regime of Kim Il-sung in 1949 and later disappeared.


see also

Tae-woong

Baik Tae-ung (born 1962), South Korean law professor and former prisoner of conscience

Wajdi Mallat

In 1972, he was elected president of the Beirut bar, and founded the first Arab Organization for Human Rights in 1974, together with prominent Arab lawyers like Abderrahmane Youssoufi (Arabic عبد الرحمن اليوسفي), a prisoner of conscience and later prime minister of Morocco.