Memory and Conscience of Nations

The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

Homage to human rights defenders and political prisoners worldwide

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Francisco Herodes Díaz Echemendía

Francisco Herodes Díaz Echemendía

* 1956

Cuba, Cuban dissident

Rosa María Payá / Maimi / 2017

Rosa María Payá

* 1989

Cuba, Dissident, Cuban dissident, The relative of a political prisoner

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

Mariia Sulialina, Prague, 2022

Mariia Sulialina Марія Суляліна

* 1996

Ukraine, Human Rights Defender, Crimea

2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014)

The witness Linn Thant - a photo of that time

Linn Thant

* 1969

Burma/Myanmar, Dissident, The Journalist

Tenzin Tsundue in Post Bellum studio, Prague 2022

Tenzin Tsundue (Tändzin Cöndü)

* 1973

Political prisoner from China, Tibet, Emigrant, A cultural celebrity

Protičínské protesty v Tibetu 2008, XXIX. Letní olympijské hry v Pekingu 2008

Dhondup Wangchen, Prague 2022

Dhondup Wangchen (Döndub Wangčhen)

* 1974

Political prisoner from China, Tibet

Protičínské protesty v Tibetu 2008, XXIX. Letní olympijské hry v Pekingu 2008

Arif Yunus in 2022

Arif Yunus

* 1955

Human Rights Defender, Historian, Azerbaijan, Dissident

Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Leyla as a candidate for the Social Democratic Party to the Parliament of Azerbaijan, September 1990

Leyla Yunus

* 1955

Human Rights Defender, Azerbaijan, Dissident, Historian

Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Yevgeniy Zhovtis, Prague, 2022

Yevgeniy Zhovtis (Jevgenij Žovtis)

* 1955

Dissident, Kazakhstan, Human Rights Defender

Perestroika, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

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