Political prisoners
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index.

Discusses the experiences of political prisoners imprisoned because they spoke against their governments, including Nelson Mandela, Panchen Lama, and Vaclav Havel.

"As you read this, thousands of men, women, and even children are being held in prisons around the world, not because they have committed violence, theft, or broken drug laws, but because they spoke against their governments. They are political prisoners; in some cases, they did not even intend to cross their nations leaders they just happened to get in the way of schemes of which they were not even aware.This book tells the stories of political prisoners, both past and present. Some of them have become leaders in their countries, like Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel. Some have disappeared and may no longer be alive, like the sixteen-year-old Panchen Lama. Many of these political prisoners are people of tremendous courage and inner strength, like Wei Jingsheng, the Chinese human rights activist. Political Prisoners tells the true and inspiring accounts of these people that every informed citizen of our world should know" --,provided by publisher.