Nobel Peace Prize Winners in Prison
Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the oppression of women in her country. She is currently in prison due to her activism.
Mohammadi is the fifth Peace laureate in history to get the prize while in prison or house arrest.
About which of these winners would you like to see a biopic narrating their life and their struggle?
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Mohammadi is the fifth Peace laureate in history to get the prize while in prison or house arrest.
About which of these winners would you like to see a biopic narrating their life and their struggle?
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Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945 in Rangoon, Burma. She is known for Beyond Rangoon (1995), Burma: A Human Tragedy (2011) and They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain (2012). She was previously married to Michael Aris.Burmese politician, diplomat and author who helped raise international support for Myanmar opposition while her country was under a military junta. She left prison and served as State Counsellor of Myanmar when her fame faded as she allowed a genocide against the Rohingya. After a coup d'état in 2021 she was arrested once again.- Narges Mohammadi is married to Taghi Rahmani. They have two children.Iranian human rights activist, she was arrested in 2016 after running a human rights campaign to abolish the death penalty in her country and she has also fought against the oppression of women in Iran. From prison she has reported the sexual and physical abuse faced by women after thousands were arrested during the Mahsa Amini protests.
- Liu Xiaobo was born on 28 December 1955 in Changchun, Jilin, China. He was married to Liu Xia and Tao Li. He died on 13 July 2017 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China.Chinese literary critic and philosopher described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner, he died in custody in 2017 while serving an 11 year sentence for "subversion of state power".
- Carl von Ossietzky attended middle school in Hamburg. In 1904 he stopped his school education before reaching secondary school. From 1907 to 1914 he worked as an assistant clerk at the Hamburg district court. In 1908 he became a member of the Democratic Association and the German Peace Society. From 1911 he worked as a freelancer for the magazine "The Free People". Two years later he married the Englishwoman Maud Lichfield-Wood. A daughter was born from this union. As early as 1914, Carl von Ossietzky had to pay for his journalistic love of truth. A contribution from that year brought him a lawsuit for insulting military justice, which was accompanied by a fine of 200 Reichsmarks.
Ossietzky did his military service between 1916 and 1918. He was an infantryman on the Western Front. His experiences at the Battle of Verdun were so powerful that he subsequently wrote against the romanticized arrogance and progression of the First World War. During the November Revolution in 1918 he worked for the Hamburg Workers' and Soldiers' Council. In the same year, Carl von Ossietzky left Hamburg and moved to Berlin. There he became general secretary of the German Peace Society. During this time his work entitled "The Approach of the New Reformation" was also published. It represents Ossietzky's only independent work. In it he advocated for a civil and democratic state consciousness in order to strengthen the Weimar Republic.
From 1920 onwards, Carl von Ossietzky worked for the social democratic "Volks-Zeitung". In the same year he founded the peace movement "No More War!" He also met the writer Kurt Tucholsky. From 1922 to 1924, Ossietzky was the editor in charge of the "Volks-Zeitung". After he founded the Republican Party with others, he became an editorial staff member of the left-liberal newspaper "Das Diary" and "Montag-Morgen". In 1927, von Ossietzky became editor-in-chief of the magazine "Die Weltbühne" and thus a colleague of Kurt Tucholsky. Through this medium he became one of the most important journalists in the Weimar Republic. His articles against rearmament resulted in several accusations.
His contributions were critical of party political events and the weakening of the constitution. In 1931, an article in the "Weltbühne" in which he reported on the secret rearmament of the Reichswehr earned him a spectacular court sentence of 18 months in prison for high treason. He owed his early release in December 1932 to a Christmas amnesty. When the National Socialists took power in Germany in 1933, Ossietzky decided to stay. He was arrested by the Gestapo at the Reichstag fire on February 28th of the same year. In March 1933 the "Weltbühne" was banned. Ossietzky went to the Sonnenburg concentration camp near Küstrin in April 1933. The following year he was transferred to the Papenburg concentration camp in Emsland.
In 1935 Carl von Ossietzky was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. Hitler forbade him to accept the Nobel Prize; This was associated with a ban on leaving the country. The award was presented to him in absentia. The award, however, brought the Nazi regime under pressure in the world public. The following year he became seriously ill with tuberculosis. The publicist was transferred to the police state hospital in Berlin.
Carl von Ossietzky died on May 4, 1938 in the Nordend Hospital in Berlin as a result of tuberculosis and torture by the Gestapo.German journalist and pacifist. As chief editor of the magazine Die Weltbühne, he published a series of exposés in the late 1920s, detailing Germany's violation of the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding an air force. He was convicted as traitor and once the Nazis took power he was sent to a concentration camp where he died in 1938 after enduring years of mistreatment and torture.
His award enraged Hitler so much he forbid Germans from receiving Nobel Prizes. - Ales Bialiatski has been married to Natallia Pinchuk since 1987. They have one child.Belarussian pro-democracy campaigner, he founded the non-governmental organization Human Rights Center Viasna. He was detained following protests in 2020 against the reelection of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.