Political Prisoners

TEHRAN

Reformists Ambivalent about Participation in Iranian Election

By Yasaman Baji
With the June 2013 presidential election drawing closer, Iran’s reformists are debating what they should do in the face of the severe restrictions to which their leaders and political parties have been subject since the popular protests that roiled the country after the last election four years ago.

Indonesia’s Blood-Soaked Chapter Still Open

By Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti
If the caste system existed in Indonesia the 10 elderly people who live in Jakarta's Kramat Street would surely be untouchables: for decades they and their families have been banned from jobs and access to education and, until 2005, their identity cards marked them as former political prisoners.