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PRIORITY CASES
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Syria: Tal Al-Mallouhi
 A high school student, blogger, and poet sentenced on February 14, 2011, to five years in prison for “divulging information to a foreign state” for her blog. >> More
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Iran: Nasrin Sotoudeh
 A prominent writer, human rights lawyer, and activist, sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison—one year for “spreading lies against the state,” five years for “acting against national security,” and another five years for “cooperating with the Center for Human Rights Defenders.”
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RELEASED
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The following writers have been released from imprisonment but may continue to face threats and harassment following their releases.
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Egypt: Kareem Amer
 A blogger and a former al-Azhyar University student sentenced to four years in prison in 2007 on charges of "disparaging Islam" and "defaming the Egyptian president" in online articles. >> More
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Tunisia: Mohammed Abbou
 An Internet writer, lawyer, and human-rights activist, arrested on March 1, 2005, for an article published on the Internet nine months earlier that denounced torture in Tunisia. >> More
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Saudi Arabia: Ali Al-Domaini
 A poet, writer, and political activist whose publications include three collections of poetry and one novel in Arabic. >> More
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Syria: Aref Dalila
 A Syrian writer and former professor who served seven years in prison after being arrested with nine other members of the Civil Society Movement during the Damascus Spring. He was released on August 7, 2008. >> More
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Algeria: Mohammed Benchicou
 The former director of Le Matin, a private daily newspaper that maintained an independent, critical editorial line toward the Algerian government. >> More
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Iran: Hojjatoleslam Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari
 A researcher, journalist, cleric, director of the Ali Shariati Research Center, and contributing editor of the now-banned newspaper Iran-e Farda (The Iran of Tomorrow). >> More
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Iran: Akbar Ganji
 Iran's leading investigative journalist and author of the best-selling book Dungeon of Ghosts, a collection of Ganji's newspaper articles published in early 2000. >> More
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Iran: Ramin Jahanbegloo
 The author of over 20 books in Persian, English, and French on philosophy and current affairs in Iran. >> More
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Syria: Michel Kilo
 A writer and journalist serving a three-year prison sentence on charges of “spreading false news, weakening national feeling and inciting sectarian sentiments.” >> More
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Iran: Siamak Pourzand
 A journalist and film critic who was sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges of "undermining state security through his links with monarchists and counterrevolutionaries." >> More
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Iran: Nasser Zarafshan
 Author, translator, and attorney sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and 70 lashes for his criticism of the official investigation carried out into the murders of five Iranian intellectuals and writers in 1998 in Tehran. >> More
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IN MEMORIAM
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Tunisia: Zouhair Yahyaoui
 The Freedom to Write Committee mourns the passing of Zouhair Yahyaoui. According to his family, he died of a heart attack on Sunday, March 13, 2005. >> More
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