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Aruna Asaf Ali (अरुणा आसफ़ अली)
Aruna Asaf Ali (अरुणा आसफ़ अली), born Aruna Gangulee (1909–1996), Indian independence activist who hoisted the flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan on 9 August 1942, led the Quit India underground, and became Delhi's first mayor.
Hundred Flowers Campaign (百花运动)
Hundred Flowers Campaign (百花运动, baihua yundong), also the Double Hundred policy, was Mao Zedong's 1956-1957 invitation to Chinese intellectuals to criticize the CCP; after six weeks of dissent it was reversed in June 1957 and over 552,000 people were labeled rightists in the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
Indian Home Rule movement
Indian Home Rule movement (1916-1918), also the Home Rule Leagues: campaign for self-government within the British Empire led by Annie Besant's All India Home Rule League (Madras, September 1916) and Tilak's league (April 1916), modeled on Irish Home Rule; ended after 1918.
Internet censorship in Vietnam
Internet censorship in Vietnam: CPV-led system of DNS tampering, website blocking, Decree 147 identity rules, and prison terms under Articles 117 and 331; Freedom House rates it Not Free, 22/100.
Lee Weiner
Lee Weiner, Northwestern University sociology research assistant and MOBE marshal, was one of the Chicago Seven defendants acquitted of conspiracy and incendiary-device charges in the 1969 trial; later a political consultant and ADL worker.
Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955–2017), Chinese literary critic and dissident, co-drafted Charter 08, won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize as a political prisoner, and died of liver cancer in custody in Shenyang.
Manilal Gandhi (મણિલાલ મોહનદાસ ગાંધી)
Manilal Gandhi (મણિલાલ મોહનદાસ ગાંધી), 1892-1956, second son of Mahatma Gandhi; editor of Indian Opinion in South Africa for 36 years, satyagrahi, 1930 Salt March marcher, 1946 UN deputant, and Defiance Campaign prisoner.
May Fourth Movement (五四运动)
May Fourth Movement (五四运动): Chinese student protests in Beijing on 4 May 1919 against the Versailles Treaty's transfer of Shandong to Japan; broadly, the New Culture movement (1915–1923) championing science, democracy, and vernacular writing.
Pingali Venkayya (పింగళి వెంకయ్య)
Pingali Venkayya (పింగళి వెంకయ్య), 1876–1963, Indian freedom fighter from Bhatlapenumarru, Andhra Pradesh, designer of the 1921 precursor to India's tricolour, presented to Gandhi at Bezwada; commemorated with 2009 and 2022 stamps.
Sunflower Student Movement (太阳花学运)
Sunflower Student Movement (太阳花学运), Taiwan's 24-day 2014 student occupation of the Legislative Yuan against the CSSTA trade pact with China; blocked ratification, preceded the Umbrella Movement, and reshaped Taiwan's politics.