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title full_name born died nationality occupation url
Lionel Bernstein Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein 1920 2002 South African Jewish anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Bernstein
Jacobo Timerman Jacobo Timerman 1923 1999 Soviet publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression in which an estimated 30,000 political prisoners were disappeared https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_Timerman
Sergiu Dan Sergiu Dan 1903 1976 Romanian novelist, journalist, Holocaust survivor and political prisoner of the communist regime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergiu_Dan
Felicia Langer Felicia Langer 1930 2018 German attorney and human rights activist known for her defence of Palestinian political prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza Strip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Langer
Bernardo Benes Dr. Bernardo Benes Baikowitz 1934 2019 Cuban prominent Jewish lawyer, banker, journalist and civic leader, who was responsible for freeing 3,600 Cuban political prisoners in 1978 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Benes
Lucy Robins Lang Lucy Fox Robins Lang 1884 1962 American activist involved with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the fight for amnesty for political prisoners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Robins_Lang
Aron Skrobek Aron Skrobek 1889 1943 null trade unionist and journalist, a member of the Jewish Labour Bund and the Communist Party of Poland, a pre-war political prisoner of the Bereza Kartuska Prison after he fled to France from the political repression in Poland he wrote of Pilsudski regime using the nom de plume David Kutner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Skrobek