WiR redlist index: Prisoners


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  • This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable for various reasons. However, all of these women have also been prisoners, detainees or captives.

Algeria

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Argentina

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Austria

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Azerbaijan

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  • Faina Kungurova was an Azerbaijani activist, the first female political prisoner to die in prison in Azerbaijan.[10][11]

Bulgaria

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China

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Czech Republic

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Egypt

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Eritrea

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Germany

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  • Lily van Angeren-Franz (1924-2011), Roma prisoner in Nazi concentration camps [34], [35]
  • Waltraud Blass (1920-2009), communist and resistance fighter [36], [37]
  • Jennifer Wenisch, a German national and a former member of ISIS was "found guilty of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity through enslavement, attempted murder and aiding and abetting the war crime of attempted murder by omission, and membership in a foreign terrorist organisation" by a German court in October 2021 for letting a 5-year old Yazidi girl enslaved in Iraq die of thirst. She was sentence to 10 years in prison. [38]; [39]; [40]; [41]; [42]

Greece

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Grenada

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Iran

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Iraq

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Ireland

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Israel

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Italy

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Japan

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Libya

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Morocco

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Nigeria

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Oman

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Pakistan

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Palestine

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  • Fayza Abdul-Majid, Palestinian writer and activist.
  • Fatmah Bernaoui, Palestinian sentenced to life imprisonment after being arrested in 1967 of beloinging to Fatah.
  • Amina Dahbour (born 1945), Palestinian activist imprisoned for participation in the El Al Flight 432 attack.
  • Nima Naheeb Mahin, Palestinian from Gaza fined for political demonstration in 1969. Her plea to be imprisoned instead of her father was ignored.
  • Sathej Nassar (c.1900-c.1970), Palestinian activist and journalist.[78]
  • Aida Issa Saad, Palestinian imprisoned for 20 years for throwing grenades at an Israeli military vehicle in 1969.
  • Mariam Shakhashir, Palestinian from Nablus accused of planting a bomb in a Jerusalem cafeteria in Feburary 1969.
  • Abla Taha (born 1947), Palestinian imprisoned in 1968.

Philippines

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Poland

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Russia

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South Africa

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Spain

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St. Croix

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1878 St. Croix Labor Riots [107], [108], [109], [110], [111], [112], [113]

Sudan

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Syria

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U.A.E.

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United Kingdom

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United States

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See also Jailed for Freedom

Vietnam

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Yemen

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References

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