- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a prisoner in U.S. custody for acts of terrorism, including mass murder. In March 2007, after four years in captivity, including six months of detention at Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — as it was claimed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing in Guantanamo Bay — confessed to masterminding the September 11th attacks, the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic Ocean, …
- David Hicks
David Matthew Hicks also known as Abu Muslim al-Austraili and Muhammed Dawood (born August 7, 1975) is an Australian citizen. After five years in legal limbo, he confessed in 2007 to a retroactive charge of "providing material support to terrorism." and was sentenced to 7 years jail, most of which was suspended.
- Man In The Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask was a prisoner held in a number of prisons, including the Bastille, during the reign of Louis XIV of France. The identity of this man has been thoroughly discussed, mainly because no one ever saw his face as it was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth, which later re-tellings of the story have said to have been an iron mask. What facts are known about this prisoner are based mainly on correspondence between his jailer and his superiors in Paris
- John Lee
John Lee (born 31 March 1928, died 21 December 2000) was an Australian actor. He is remembered for his roles on television, including Andrew Reynolds in "Prisoner" and Philip Stewart in "Return to Eden". He also worked in the United Kingdom throughout the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in series such as "The Avengers", "The Troubleshooters", "Doomwatch", "Warship", "Survivors" and "Wilde Alliance".
- H
"H" (born 21st April 1983) was an unnamed member of a Lebanese-Australian gang rape squad in the Sydney gang rapes which targeted white Australian females. H has had his name suppressed under court order due to his "intellectual and mental disabilities". During the course of his trial, it was revealed he had an IQ of 67. His involvement in the rape attacks were as follows: ;August 4, 2000, Friday A 14-year-old female is approached by four of the gang led by "H".
- Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born 6 December 1952) is the adopted name of Michael Peterson, a British criminal. Bronson was born in Aberystwyth, before moving to Merseyside, and later Luton, which is often referred to as his home town. Bronson states on his website that contrary to reports frequently made in the press, his name was changed by his fight promoter in 1987 and was not a choice he made in relation to the actor, Charles Bronson.
- David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving is a British writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 30 books, including "The Destruction of Dresden" (1963), "Hitler's War" (1977), "Uprising!" (1981), "Churchill's War" (1987), and "Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich" (1996).
- John Walker Lindh
John Phillip Walker Lindh is an American who was captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan while fighting there for the Taliban. His capture made worldwide headlines. Walker prefers to go by the name Hamza Walker Lindh today, although during his time in Afghanistan, he went by Sulayman al-Faris. He earned the nicknames Jihad Johnny and Ratboy in the same style as Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose, …
- Duke Cunningham
Randall Harold Cunningham (born December 8 1941), usually known as Randy or Duke, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 50th Congressional District from 1991 to 2005. Cunningham resigned from the House on November 28 2005 after pleading guilty to accepting at least $2.4 million in bribes and underreporting his income for 2004.
- Michael Howard
Michael Howard was known as an American bicycle manufacturer and business owner (Medici Bicycle Company) before his arrest and conviction as the so-called "Hair Bandit". Howard was arrested Jan. 1, 2002, and pleaded guilty on April 3, 2002 and was sentenced to eight years in prison for cutting off the hair of nine women and a 12 year old girl on the streets of Long Beach and East Los Angeles. It is likely that Howard was acting out a Hair Fetish.
- Schapelle Corby
Schapelle Leigh Corby (born 10 July 1977) is an Australian convicted and imprisoned in Indonesia for drug smuggling. She is a former shop assistant and beauty therapy student from Queensland. Corby is currently serving a twenty year sentence for the importation of of cannabis into Bali, Indonesia. She was convicted and sentenced in Bali on May 27, 2005 by the Denpasar (Indonesia) District Court and is currently serving her sentence in Kerobokan Prison, Bali.
- John Wood
John Wood (Born July 14, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Gold Logie Award winning Australian actor, best known for his role as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon in the Seven Network's long running police drama "Blue Heelers". John Wood began his acting career in 1967, where he has a guest role in "Bellbird", an Australian television series. He then appearred in several Australian drama series' and mini-series' in minor roles.
- Willie Horton
William R. Horton (born August 12, 1951 in Chesterfield, South Carolina) is a convicted felon who was the subject of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program that released him while serving a life sentence for murder, without the possibility of parole, providing him the opportunity to commit a rape and armed robbery against a woman.
- Ian Smith
Ian Smith (born June 19 1938) is an Australian soap opera character actor and television scriptwriter, best known today for his long-running role as the caring, kindly coffee shop owner Harold Bishop in Network Ten's long running serial "Neighbours". Smith had previously acted in guest roles in drama series such as the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police", …
- Jeff Luers
Jeff "Free" Luers is an environmental activist from Los Angeles, California, currently serving a twenty-two year prison sentence for arson. Recently, on February 14, 2007, The Court of Appeals ruled that Jeff Luers' sentence will be revisited, with a possible 15 years taken off the original sentencing. In 2000 he set fire to three SUVs at Romania Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Oregon as a protest against excessive consumption and global warming along with Craig Marshall, …
- Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 - November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer. Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1989 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving acts of forced sodomy, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism.
- Tali Fahima
Tali Fahima (born 1976) is an Israeli woman of Algerian Jewish family background, who was tried and convicted for her contacts with Zakaria Zubeidi, Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. She grew up in a single parent family in Qiryat Gat, a town in the south of Israel. Until 2003 she was a Likud supporter; she then read an interview in which Zubeidi described his transformation from peace activist to wanted terrorist; intrigued, she found Zubeidi's phone number, …
- Terry Nichols
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who was convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, April 19, 1995), which claimed 168 lives. Nichols was convicted of eight counts of manslaughter in a United States District Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment in ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
- Omar Abdel-Rahman
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman is a blind Egyptian Muslim cleric who is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Administrative Maximum Penitentiary hospital in Florence, Colorado, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of "Seditious Conspiracy," which requires only that a crime be planned, not that it necessarily be attempted. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- Joe Francis
Joseph R. (Joe) Francis (born April 1, 1973) is the founder of Mantra Films, Inc., which produces the "Girls Gone Wild" and "Guys Gone Wild" DVD series. Francis, who grew up in Laguna Beach, California, graduated from the University of Southern California in 1995 with a degree in Business Administration. He founded Mantra at the age of 24. He has appeared on Howard Stern's radio show, and as a guest on "The Man Show" and other television programs.
- Matthew Norman
Matthew Norman (b. September 17, 1986) is an Australian from New South Wales, known as a member of the Bali Nine. Norman was arrested at the Melasti Hotel in Kuta on April 17, 2005 at the time he was aged 18 with Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, Myuran Sukumaran and Si Yi Chen. Police claim the group were in possession of 350 grams of heroin and other items indicating involvement in a plan to transport the drugs to Australia.
- Marina Nemat
Marina Nemat (b. 1965 in Tehran) is an Iranian author. Her father was a dance teacher, her mother a hairdresser in Teheran. As a devout Catholic and high school student she experienced the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the new regime of Ayatollah Khomeini. Marina was opposed to the oppressive policies of the new Islamic government, attending demonstrations and writing anti-revolutionary articles in a student magazine.
- Paul Young
Paul Young (born 3 July 1944 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) is a Scottish television actor. He is the son of the actor John Young. Some of his credits include "The Sullivans", "Prisoner", "The Flying Doctors", "The Tales of Para Handy", "No Job for a Lady", "Coronation Street" and "Still Game". Paul has gone on to find long-lasting fame among the fishing community, fronting a series of fishing TV shows, …
- Akbar Ganji
Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist and writer. He was arrested on April 22, 2000 after he took part in a conference held in Berlin on April 7 and 8, 2000. He was imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran until his release on March 18, 2006. He holds a Masters degree in Communications. He is the winner of the 2006 World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression's International Press Freedom Award in 2000.
- Jean Genet
Jean Genet (–), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal; later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including "Querelle de Brest", "The Thief's Journal", "Our Lady of the Flowers", "The Balcony", "The Blacks" and "The Maids".
- Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is a citizen of Qatar who was arrested while studying at Bradley University in the United States. Al-Marri was arrested in December 2001 and held in civilian jails in Peoria, Illinois, and New York City as a material witness. His brother, Jarallah al-Marri, was captured in January 2002 and transported to military detention at United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. In 2002, Ali was charged with financial crimes.
- Shi Tao
Shi Tao (born 25 July 1968) is a Chinese journalist, writer and poet, who in 2005 was imprisoned for 10 years for releasing a document of the Communist Party to an overseas Chinese democracy site. He had previously worked for the business daily "Dangdai Shang Bao" (Contemporary Business News) in Changsha.
- Adil Charkaoui
Adil Charkaoui (born 1974) is a Morocco-born permanent resident of Canada who was arrested by the Canadian government under a security certificate in May 2003.
- Babar Ahmad
Babar Ahmad (b. 1974) is a prisoner currently held in the United Kingdom pending an appeal against extradition to the United States where he faces terrorism-related charges. Ahmad was born in London, the son of a British Civil Servant who immigrated from Pakistan in 1962. He studied for a degree in engineering at Imperial College London and after graduation got a job in IT Support at the College.
- Andy Stepanian
Andrew Stepanian is an anarchist animal rights activist and, defenders claim, a political prisoner. He is part of the SHAC 7. In March 2006 he was convicted of one charge of conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Stepanian's involvement in the conspiracy to cause financial damages to HLS was limited to organizing and attending protests, …
- Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler is a name attributed to the murderer of several women in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in the early 1960s. Though the crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo, investigators of the case have since suggested the murders (sometimes known as the silk stocking murders) were not the handiwork of one person.
- Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence is an Australian actress, best known for several soap opera roles. Her first high-profile role was in "Number 96" as the Liz Chalmers for six months spanning late 1975 to early 1976. Sweet Liz married key character Arnold Feather but was ultimately revealed as a decietful schemer who tried to poison Arnold. She followed this by playing Marilyn Mason in the television series "Prisoner".
- Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor Missouri prison inmate on death row, convicted of raping and murdering 15-year-old Ann Harrison after abducting her from a school bus stop in March of 1989, in Raytown, Missouri. Taylor was aided by Roderick Nunley, also currently on Missouri's death row for the same crime. Taylor and Nunley, by their own admissions in court, were under the influence of drugs at the time of the crime. Taylor was scheduled to be executed February 1, 2006, …
- Maximilian Kolbe
Maximilian Kolbe, also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe and "Apostle of Consecration to Mary," born as Rajmund Kolbe, was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as Saint Maximilian Kolbe on October 10, 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and declared a martyr of charity.
- Ernst Zündel
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa, and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred." He lived in Canada from 1958 to 2000.
- Steve Biko
Stephen Bantu Biko (18 December 1946 - 12 September 1977) was a noted nonviolent anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. While living, his writings and activism attempted to empower blacks, …
- Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes (born 1948) is an Australian actor whose most famous roles include "ABBA: The Movie" and the TV sitcom "Hey Dad...!" Hughes has worked extensively in Australian theatre, film and television and as a Sydney Theatre Company company artist from 1981. Theatre roles included "The War Horse" and "Great Big Adventure Book for Boys". Television roles have included: "Chopper Squad", "Cop Shop", "The Sullivans", …
- Val Lehman
Val Lehman is an Australian actress who is best known for the role of Wentworth Detention Centre's inmate boss, or "top dog", Bea Smith in the Australian series "Prisoner". She played the role for 4½ years before leaving the series in the 400th episode in 1983, with the character perishing offscreen some two years later.
- Haleh Esfandiari
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she had earlier been a fellow in 1995-96. Ms. Esfandiari has worked as a journalist in Iran and taught at the College of Mass Communication in Tehran. She served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran and was the deputy director of a foundation at which she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers.
- Larry Franklin
Lawrence Anthony Franklin is a U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel who has pleaded guilty to passing information about U.S. policy towards Iran to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the U.S, while he was working for the Defense Department in an attempt to get the information passed on to the United States National Security Council, which he could not do through regular Pentagon channels.