Nobel Peace Prize Winners in Prison

Burmese politician, diplomat and author who helped raise international support for Myanmar opposition while her country was under a military junta. She left prison and served as State Counsellor of Myanmar when her fame faded as she allowed a genocide against the Rohingya. After a coup d'état in 2021 she was arrested once again.

Iranian human rights activist, she was arrested in 2016 after running a human rights campaign to abolish the death penalty in her country and she has also fought against the oppression of women in Iran. From prison she has reported the sexual and physical abuse faced by women after thousands were arrested during the Mahsa Amini protests.

Chinese literary critic and philosopher described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner, he died in custody in 2017 while serving an 11 year sentence for "subversion of state power".

German journalist and pacifist. As chief editor of the magazine Die Weltbühne, he published a series of exposés in the late 1920s, detailing Germany's violation of the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding an air force. He was convicted as traitor and once the Nazis took power he was sent to a concentration camp where he died in 1938 after enduring years of mistreatment and torture.
His award enraged Hitler so much he forbid Germans from receiving Nobel Prizes.

Belarussian pro-democracy campaigner, he founded the non-governmental organization Human Rights Center Viasna. He was detained following protests in 2020 against the reelection of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.