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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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Evan Mawarire
1
35:35

March 2023

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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Evan Mawarire
36:35
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
39:14

February 2023

"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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Evan Mawarire
49:29

January 2023

December 2022

🎧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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Evan Mawarire
1
35:29

November 2022

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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Evan Mawarire
29:49
🎧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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Evan Mawarire
38:35

October 2022

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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Evan Mawarire
4
23:43

September 2022

🎧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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Evan Mawarire
38:14
🎧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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Evan Mawarire
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32:45
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