political prisoners

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political prisoners

La liberaci?n de Nelson Mandela

11 de Febrero de 1990
2002
Discusses Nelson Mandela's long fight against apartheid in South Africa, his twenty-seven years as a political prisoner, his release from prison in 1990, and his subsequent leadership role in the country.

Waiting for the barbarians

1982
When interrogation experts arrive, the Magistrate is jolted into sympathy for their victims and an act of rebellion gets him imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

The tyrant's novel

2004
Alan Sheriff, a writer living in a country ruled by a tyrannical dictator is ordered to ghost write an autobiographical novel about the tyrant that will undermine support for sanctions in the West or else he and his family will suffer dire consequences.

Grey is the color of hope

1988
An account of a Soviet poet's four years spent in a labor camp.

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

an experiment in literary investigation
1985

Bitter winds

a memoir of my years in China's Gulag
1994

Troublemaker

one man's crusade against China's cruelty
1996

Unbroken

resistance and survival in the concentration camps
1988

Against All Hope

The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares
1986

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