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Bookmark or Share- Freedom Collection » Interviews » Blas Giraldo Reyes RodriguezBlas Giraldo Reyes Rodriguez was born in Manicaragua, Cuba. As the son of a political prisoner, the government forced Blas out of school at the age of 16. During the next three years of his life, Blas was pressed into military service where he performed forced labor. In 1975, Blas and his family were sent to live with his father in a penal colony, essentially a concentration camp for political ...
- Freedom Collection » Interviews » Rebiya KadeerInterviewed April 2010 Rebiya Kadeer is a human rights defender, a former prisoner of conscience, and a leader of the Uyghur people. The Uyghurs are Turkic Muslims from China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, which most Uyghurs call by its former name, East Turkistan. Born into a poor family, Kadeer became the owner of a small business and eventually one of the richest people in China.
- Freedom Collection » Interviews » Armando ValladaresInterviewed April 2010 Armando Valladares, a poet, human rights advocate, and former diplomat, was a political prisoner in Castro's Cuba for 22 years. After international pressure led to his release, he emigrated to the United States and served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission from 1988 to 1990. Valladares was a Cuban Postal Bank employee who was arrested in ...
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