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Each week, political dissidents from around the world sit down with Zimbabwean democracy activist Evan Mawarire to share stories about their struggles on the frontlines of freedom.
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Forgotten Prisoners, Writing for Freedom - Egypt🇪🇬
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Forgotten Prisoners, Writing for Freedom - Egypt🇪🇬
Jailed in Egypt during a mass arrest, 17 year-old Abdelrahman Elgendy faces 15 years in prison. To cope, he studies and begins writing as a form of…
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He Set Himself On Fire For Freedom - Tibet
Young Tibetan pop star Tswenag Norbu self immolated in front of the iconic Potala Palace. The oppression of Tibetans by Chinese government became too…
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We Refuse To Be Erased - The Uyghur Genocide
Zubayra Shamseden escaped the genocide. Today at the Uyghur Human Rights Program she is documenting stories of her people who have escaped China's…
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Evan Mawarire
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"They Dropped Barrel Bombs Packed With Shrapnel & TNT" - Syria🇸🇾
Aziz Alhamza was not a journalist yet he began a network of brave citizen journalists who exposed massacres in Raqqa Syria. Jailed, tortured and many…
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The Lawyer Who Fought Back - Uganda🇺🇬
Nicholas Opiyo is as decorated a human rights lawyer as you will ever find. His story of defending the voiceless, facing torture himself for his work is…
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🎧Free My Husband Felix Maradiaga - Nicaragua 🇳🇮
“I must tell you that I will be unfaithful to you in this marriage, for I am in love with Nicaragua too” Felix & Berta are fighting the brutal Ortega…
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🎧Freedom Comes With Responsibility - I Escaped North Korea For It 🇰🇵
Joseph Kim escaped North Korea as a 15 year after watching his father die of hunger. Walking for days & living in mountains he got to China. His story…
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We Will Recover Democracy In Venezuela 🇻🇪
Rodrigo Diamanti narrates why he became a student organizer of non-violent protest against the Venezuelan regime and his now lifelong work of raising a…
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🎧We Will See Hong Kong Free In Our Lifetime🇭🇰
Listen now | How did a leaderless movement of middle school and college students bravely confront the Chinese regime's oppression? Joey Siu an exiled…
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I am their voice - A People's Revolution in Iran 🇮🇷
Listen now | The inspiring story of How Masih Alinejad, a women's rights activist started a movement in her mother's kitchen that is now the backbone of…
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🎧We Forced Them To Care🇰🇭
This is the inspiring story of an English teacher who started an environmental protest and advocacy movement that shook the dictatorship of Cambodia
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🎧Freer Than Those Who Are Free - Zimbabwe🇿🇼
Detained in a maximum security prison, Evan Mawarire is cornered. The Mugabe dictatorship sought to break him. Listen as he narrates an unusual prison…
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