Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Prisoners

WiR redlist index: Prisoners

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed. This list of red links is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles on the English Wikipedia. Please note however that the red links on this list may well not be suitable as the basis for an article. All new articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria with reliable independent sources.

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

• Nassima Hablal (1927-2013) Algerian independence activist [1], [2], [3]
• Fettouma Ouzegane (born 1928), Algerian feminist and activist.[4]

Argentina

• Delia Galará, political prisoner [5], [6]
• Ana Mohaded, writer and political prisoner [7], [8]

Austria

• Marta Friedländer/Marta Friedländer-Garelik (1906-1996), [9]

Azerbaijan

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

Bulgaria

• Gana Avdjieva, Bulgarian activist, Bulgaria's first female political prisoner.[12]

China

• Lady Wen-chi/Lady Wen-Chi - Chinese captive in book Women of Discovery page 26
• Chen Zongying (1902–2003), Chinese revolutionary.[13]

Czech Republic

• Věra Sosnarová (born 1931), gulag prisoner [14]

Egypt

• Sanaa Abdel-Gawwad, activist and wife of wife of Mohammed al-Beltagy.[15][16][17]
• Yasmine Abdel-Moneim, student at Al-Azhar University sentenced to two and a half years in jail for illegal protesting.[18]
• Ayat Hamada, Azhar University student improsoned for three months for illegally protesting.[19]
• Sarah Khaled, dentistry student sentenced in 2014 to two and a half years in jail for wearing a Rabaa pin in her veil.[20][21][22]
• Fatima Naaout / Fatima Naoot / Fatma Naout (born 1964) is an Egyptian poet and journalist jailed for blasphemy.[23]
• Farida al-Naqqash.[24][25][26]
• Karima El-Serafy, arrested and imprisoned in 2014 on charges of espionage.[27][28]
• Manal El-Shamy, arrested and detained in January 2014.[29]
• Ola Tarek, schoolgirl political prisoner arrested in December 2014.[30][31]

Eritrea

• Ribka Sibhatu (born 1962), Eritrean-Italian writer.[32]
• Abeba Tesfagiorgis, prisoner and human rights activist.[33]

Germany

• 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

• Irini Gini / Eirini Gini / Mirka Ginova (1916-1946) was a Slavomacedonian teacher, the first woman political prisoner to be executed in the Greek Civil War.[43][44]

Grenada

• Phyllis Coard, nee Evans (born 1943), Jamaican-born wife of Bernard Coard. Minister for women's affairs in the People's Revolutionary Government, imprisoned as one of the Grenada 17.

Iran

• Elham Afroutan, Iranian journalist and writer.[45]
• Parnaz Azima, Iranian-American journalist detained by Iran as a spy.[46]
• Olya Roohizadegan, Baha'i prisoner and writer.[47][48]

Iraq

• Habiba Musha'al, Iraq's first female political prisoner.[49]

Ireland

• Eileen Hickey, political prisoner [50]
• Sadie McGilloway, political prisoner [51]
• Elizabeth McKee, Irish political prisoner [52]
• Teresa Holland, Irish political prisoner [53], [54]

Israel

• Ilham Abu Saleh, Golan Druze psychology student imprisoned in Israel in 1997 as a Syrian spy.[55][56]
• Manal Tamimi, Palestinian activist.[57]
• Nariman Tamini, Palestinian activist.[58][59][60]
• Charlotte Wardi (b. 1928), French professor, now living in Israel. [61]

Italy

• Susanna Ronconi (born 1951), Italian cofounder of Prima Linea.[62][63]

Japan

• Ekida Yukiko (born 1950), Japanese activist, essayist.[64]
• Daidōji Ayako (born 1948), Japanese activist at Japan Airlines Flight 472 (1977).

Libya

• Kristiana Vulcheva, Bulgarian nurse jailed in Libya for infecting children with HIV.[65]

Morocco

• Fatna El Bouih (born 1955), feminist and human rights activist.[66][67]
• Latifa Jbabdi (born 1955), feminist and human rights activist.[68][69][70]

Nigeria

• Rebecca Ikpe, imprisoned for treason in 1995.[71]
• Malama Gambo/Malama Gambo Ahmed Sawaba, leader of the Woman's Wing of NEPU in the 1950s.[72][73]
• Mee Mofe-Damijo (1957-1996), journalist and publisher of Weekend Classique.[74]

Oman

• Taybah Mawali / Taiba al-Mawali / Taybah Ma`wali / Taybah al-Ma'wali is an Omani journalist, human rights activist and former parliamentarian.[75][76]

Pakistan

• Akhtar Baloch, Sindhi activist.[77]

Palestine

• 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

• Marie Hilao-Enriquez, human rights activist in the Philippines.[79][80]

Poland

• Marta Baranowska (1903-2009), Polish politician, Ravensbrück prisoner [81], [82]
• Henryka Bartnicka-Tajchert (1922-1997), Polish political prisoner [83], [84]
• Maria Broel-Plater-Skassa (1913-2005), Ravensbrück prisoner [85], [86]
• Liza Czapnik (1922-2016) [87]
• Bela Ya'ari Hazan/Bela Hazan (b. 1922), [88]
• Ilona Karmel (1925-2000), prisoner and writer, [89]
• Lonka Korzybrodska (1917-1943), [90], [91] (also a bibliography of sources on the second link)
• Hela Rufeisen Schüpper (1921-2017) , [92]
• Rivka Kuper Liebeskind/Rivka Spiner (b 1920), [93]
• Krystyna Wituska (1920-1944), Polish resistance member.[94][95]

Russia

• Olga Adamova-Sliozberg, Gulag prisoner [96]
• Nina Pavlovna Aminova, Gulag prisoner [97]
• Anna Andreeva, Gulag prisoner
• Ariadna Efron, Gulag prioner [98] ru:Эфрон, Ариадна Сергеевна
• Galina Ivanovna Levinson, Gulag prisoner [99]
• Susanna Pechuro, Gulag prisoner [100]
• Tamara Petkevich, Gulag actress [101]
• Evgeniia Michailovna Peunkova, Gulag prisoner [102]
• Alla Tumanova, Gulag prisoner [103]

South Africa

• Connie Mofokeng, anti-apartheid activist, [104], [105]

Spain

• Emma Roca (revolutionary) (1919-2004), Spanish revolutionary.[106]

St. Croix

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

• Mary Leticia Thomas (ca. 1838-1905, Queen Mary),
• Axeline Elizabeth Salomon (ca. 1858-? Queen Agnes)
• Mathilde McBean (ca. 1858-1935, Queen Mathilda),
• Susanna Abrahamsen (1830-1906, Bottom Belly)

Sudan

• Amal Abbas, first Sudanese woman to edit a daily newspaper.[114]
• Bakhita Kwashe (1841-1899), first Sudanese nun.[115]

Syria

• Hasiba Abd al-Rahman / Hasiba `Abdalrahman, Syrian prison novelist.[116][117]
• Nahed Badawiyeh, engineer imprisoned in the 1980s.[118][119]
• Hala Haj (born 1957), imprisoned 1990-1997.[120]
• Raghda Hassan / Raghda Hasan / Raghda al-Hassan (born c.1975) is a Syrian activist, the subject of the documentary A Syrian Love Story.[121][122]
• Juliette El-Meer / Juliet Elmir Saadeh / Juliet Al-Meer / Juliette El Mir Saadeh (died 1976), Syrian activist and wife of Antoun Saadeh.[123][124]
• Lina al-Mir, medical student arrested in 1984 and 1987 on suspicion of links to the Party for Communist Action.[125][126]
• Saint Shirin of Karka d-Beth Slokh (died 559), Syriac Christian saint.[127]

U.A.E.

• Dhabiya Khamis / Dhabia Khamees (born 1958), UAE author, translator and diplomat.[128][129]

United Kingdom

• Susan Willis Fletcher, American-born spiritualist and forger.[130]
• Joan Hayman (1924-2002), English peace campaigner.[131]
• Noreen MacDowell (died 2011), activist and filmmaker.[132]
• Josephine Amelia Perkins (born 1818), horse thief and autobiographical writer.[133][134]
• Katherine Talati, Iranian-British painter of Chinese landscapes.[135]
• Ruth Wyner, charity worker, activist and autobiographical writer.[136]

United States

See also Jailed for Freedom

• Edith Ainge suffragist, [137]
• Lillian Ascough, suffragist [138]
• Catherine Virginia Baxley (born c.1810), Confederate spy and prisoner diarist.[139]
• Carolyn Baxter (born 1953), African-American writer.[140]
• Precious Bedell (born 1954).[141]
• Cyntoia Brown, see Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
• Lucy Ewing (suffragist), [142]
• Elizabeth Munro Fisher (1759-1845), imprisoned for forgery and autobiographical writer.[143]
• Janet Fotheringham, suffragist, [144]
• Erenestine Hara Kettler (b. 1896) [145]\
• Patricia McConnel (born 1932), writer.[146][147]
• Diane Hamill Metzger (born 1949), life sentence prisoner and writer.[148]
• Katharine A. Morey suffragist [149], [150]
• Michele Naar-Obed, peace activist.[151]
• Judee Norton (born 1949), prison memoirist.
• Minnie Quay (suffragist) Not the ghost Minnie Quay [152]
• Johanna Spector, musician, writer, born in Latvia, [153]
• Margaret Werner Tobien (1921-1997), American woman who survived imprisonment in Gulag.
• K. White (born 1772), memoirist.[154]

Vietnam

• Bao Luong / Nguyen Trung Nguyet (1909-1976) was a Vietnamese revolutionary, Vietname's first female political prisoner.[155][156]

Yemen

• Amina al-Tuhaif, sentenced to death aged 14 for killing her husband and imprisoned for 9 years.[157][158]