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Fang Lizhi
Resistance & Human Rights
49
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 890

Fang Lizhi

ๆ–นๅŠฑไน‹
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
12 February 1936 โ€“ 6 April 2012 (76 years old)

Fang Lizhi was a premier Chinese astrophysicist and university educator whose open advocacy for human rights, academic freedom, and democratic reform earned him the title of 'China's Sakharov'. His stirring campus lectures inspired the 1986 student democracy protests and laid the philosophical foundations for the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement, after which he spent a year sheltered inside the US Embassy in Beijing before entering exile.

Tucson, Arizona, United States
Elena Bonner
Resistance & Human Rights
47
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 980

Elena Bonner

ะ•ะปะตะฝะฐ ะ“ะตะพั€ะณะธะตะฒะฝะฐ ะ‘ะพะฝะฝัั€
๐ŸŒ Turkmenistan
15 February 1923 โ€“ 18 June 2011 (88 years old)

Elena Bonner was a fearless Soviet pediatrician, World War II veteran, and premier human rights activist who co-founded the Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976 and served as the voice and international representative of her husband, Andrei Sakharov. Defying constant KGB surveillance, arrests, and internal exile in Gorky, she represented Soviet prisoners of conscience before the world community and accepted the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize on Sakharov's behalf.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Mohamed Bouazizi
Resistance & Human Rights
15
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mohamed Bouazizi

ุทุงุฑู‚ ุงู„ุทูŠุจ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ุจูˆุนุฒูŠุฒูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1984 โ€“ 2011 (26 years old)

Tunisian street vendor whose desperate self-immolation in protest against municipal humiliation ignited the Jasmine Revolution, toppling President Ben Ali and sparking the Arab Spring across the Middle East.

Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Resistance & Human Rights
51
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,350

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ะะปะตะบัะฐะฝะดั€ ะ˜ัะฐะตะฒะธั‡ ะกะพะปะถะตะฝะธั†ั‹ะฝ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
11 December 1918 โ€“ 3 August 2008 (89 years old)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a monumental Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose epic exposรฉ of the Soviet forced-labor camp system, The Gulag Archipelago, shattered Western illusions regarding totalitarian communism and altered the moral course of twentieth-century history. Awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, he survived eight years in the Gulag and internal exile before being stripped of his Soviet citizenship and expelled in 1974.

Moscow, Russia
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