{"id":69,"date":"2012-03-09T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:14:16","slug":"beispiel-seite","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"WELCOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"profile\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/om.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Since 2008, <strong>Omar Radi<\/strong> has been reporting on secret agreements between big companies and the role of the state in the land grabbing of marginalized populations and communities, which has led to the forced resettlement of farmers and villages.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Press-release-Omar-Radi.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press release<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"profile\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/isl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Since 2011, <strong>Islam Shikhali<\/strong> has been working as an independant journalist, reporting on socio-economic, political, human rights and conflict issues.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Press-release-Islam-Shikahli.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press release<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"profile\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/sh2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Shahla Humbatova<\/strong> She has been campaigning for human rights since 2013. She studied law at Baku State University from 1993 to 1997 and has been campaigning for political prisoners and women&#8217;s rights ever since. She is a member of the Azerbaijani Bar Association and was honored with the International Women of Courage Award in Washington in 2020.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Press-release-Shahla-Humbatova.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press release<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"profile\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gsr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Getu Saketa Roro<\/strong> Human rights lawyer from Ethiopia. Getu Saketa Roro witnessed the profound socio-ecological injustices and political oppression faced by his community in Western Oromia Area at an early age.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Press-release.-Getu-Saketa-Roro-docx.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press release<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/HazalOcak.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Hazal Ocak<\/strong> worked as a correspondent for Cumhuriyet Daily. In 2014, she specialized in environmental issues, environmental policy, corruption and human rights about environmental. She documented illegal developments in Istanbul from dubious sources of money in her book \"Ihanet\".\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Press-release-15.July2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press release<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/hs_aak_g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Amir Aman Kiyaro<\/strong> has been reporting for more than three years as a freelance journalist for the Associated Press (AP) on the armed conflict in the Ethiopian administrative zone of Tigray, as well as on the consequences of climate change in the region\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Press-Release-Amir-Kiyaro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press release<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Yavuz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Yavuz Ekinci<\/strong> is a Kurdish writer from Turkey. The Supreme Criminal Court in Istanbul sentenced him to a sentenced to a probation for his books and opinions: \"As a writer, I am the soul, the memory and the conscience of our time.\"\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/paar2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Julia Cimafiejeva<\/strong> from belarus was a direct participant and eyewitness to these events. In 2020, she took part in the peaceful protests in Minsk and read protest poems on Nezale\u017enasci Square. She reported on the deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus in numerous interviews, political and literary readings and on her Facebook page.<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Kumaman Kanapathipillai<\/strong> \"Having grown up during the years of civil war marked by atrocities and endless suffering, for at least 10 years photojournalist Kumanan Kanapathippillai (30) has been reporting about the suffering and the violation of human rights of the Tamils.\"\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/press-release-K.-Kanapathippillai.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press release Kumaman Kanapathipillai<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kumananimages.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/kumananimages.com\/<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/agprofile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Alexander Goncharenko<\/strong> The Russian human rights activist worked for a long time as medical practitioner. In April 2022, the district court in Barnaul convicted him of \u201cpublic acts discrediting the deployment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The proceedings were triggered by the blog entry \u201cI cannot and will not be silent\u201c\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Pressemitteilung.Goncharenko-final_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"tlink\">Press release Alexander Goncharenko<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hsg2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Rana<\/strong> The scriptwriter and filmmaker Rana (pseudonym) produces each of her films under high stress and says she always has to expend a lot of energy to avoid thinking about the consequences threatened in her country. In Germany, she would like to think about a new screenplay.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Presse-release-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"tlink\">Press release Rana (Pseudonym)<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hsg2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Rana<\/strong> The scriptwriter and filmmaker Rana (pseudonym) produces each of her films under high stress and says she always has to expend a lot of energy to avoid thinking about the consequences threatened in her country. In Germany, she would like to think about a new screenplay.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Presse-release-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"tlink\">Press release Rana (Pseudonym)<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hsg1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n\n<div><strong>Nazanin<\/strong> As a contemporary composer and musician, Nazanin (pseudonym) also faces major problems in her country. Although she is considered a great talent in her field, public performances in her home country remain forbidden to her. She wants to get to know the work of her European colleagues, make new contacts and be able to work \u201cwithout scissors in her head\u201d for once.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Presse-release-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"tlink\">Press release Nazanin (Pseudonym)<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n The 34-year-old photographer from Belarus had come under increased pressure since the rigged presidential election last August 2020. Instead of the pro-regime pictures ordered by the editor-in-chief of \"Zviazda,\" she first photographed the peaceful demonstrations, then the violent persecution by Belarusian special forces and arbitrary arrests of protesters. Finally, the award-winning photographer quit her permanent job at the state-owned daily newspaper:\n<a class=\"tlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/press-release-Tatsiana-Tkachova.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to Press release<\/a>\n--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bischof-Antonio-Ablon-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n<div style=\"margin-top: 15px;\">Bishop Antonio Ablon of the \"Iglesia Filipino Independiente\", Diocese Pagadian of the Philippine Island Mindanao. He is committed to the indigenous people of Mindanao. <a class=\"tlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/press-release-Antonio-Ablon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to Press release<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Angel-Istek-Alcu-web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n<div style=\"margin-top: 15px;\">Angel \u0130stek Alcu - The 35-year-old freelance journalist from Diyarbakir has made a name for herself above all as a translator and \"fixer\" for foreign colleagues in the Kurdish-Turkish crisis region. In recent years she has repeatedly worked for the British BBC, the Wall Street Journal and the public broadcaster in Sweden. <a class=\"tlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pressemitteilung-Angel-Istek-12.6.19_EN.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to Press release<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"profile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Shahindha.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>\n\n<div style=\"margin-top: 15px;\">Shahindha Ismail 14 years ago Shahindha Ismail (41) founded the \"Maldivian Democracy Network (MDN)\". The NGO fights against religious fundamentalism, for the return to democratic principles and the observance of human rights, but also for the interests and release of political prisoners.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Press-release-Shaindha-Ismail-10.4.19_EN.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to Press Release<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201eSTIMMEN F\u00dcR DIE FREIHEIT&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe podcast of the Hamburg Foundation.<br \/>\nJohannes von Dohnanyi introduces &#8211; but not only &#8211; current and former guests of the foundation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamburger-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/stimmenfuerdiefreiheitpodcast-1024x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3960\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/21QzvaD7GIQu0LbrF5D5Cp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Shammi Haque from Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/44M5Rw5KlgHMYCB8KbiS5U\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Kamal Chomani<\/a> &#8211; <strong>We will not be silenced!<\/strong> The young journalist and analyst Kamal Chomani had to flee his homeland after opposing the referndum for independance called by the Kurdish leadership. Even though today he is living in Germany, the former guest of the Hamburg Foundation for politically perscuted people hasn\u2019t stopped fighting for democracy and human rights just in Kurdistan. \u201eIraqi from all walks of life are fed up with the system!\u201c<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3lxfYlWnUhxcqYuaKnkG6x\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Shahindha Ismail<\/a> &#8211; No place form me in paradise!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4O5BcUHxeZazVSjbknrGuG?si=i3V7xaxxTFOPBTeTB9z50g&#038;dl_branch=1&#038;nd=1&#038;utm_medium=organic&#038;product=open&#038;%24full_url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F4O5BcUHxeZazVSjbknrGuG%3Fsi%3Di3V7xaxxTFOPBTeTB9z50g%26dl_branch%3D1&#038;feature=organic&#038;_branch_match_id=977184690150337034\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Heval Bozbay<\/a> &#8211; \u201eI have still dreams.\u201c<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcast3c23c6.podigee.io\/6-neue-episode#t=9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Farzad Pak- Filmproduzent<\/a> &#8211; Oppression and restrictions only foster creativity<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3WXlKTgWz9bA3DEI6Ueo1x?si=130fc1d0481f446&#038;fbclid=IwAR3rf67sRl_QSYfLyLkbWktfgHNkNm7BxQcL43QGS0AQ0wGXdrF05qA0TO0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Farida Nekzad:<\/a> &#8211; Dark times are coming back<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4Npd9uSbSTFnP9Exm46SkF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Aleksei Bobrovnikov:<\/a> &#8211; Ukraine: \u201eIch hasse es, wenn meine Informanten get\u00f6tet werden\u201c<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7Ln4hXGwUNuIJxDP77Ss5h\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Tanya Tkachova &#8211; Belarus:<\/a> \u201e Ich habe getan, was ich konnte\u201c.<\/li>\n<lil><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4SRjxnUtDHhm5U4lD6QCCj\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Ellen Tordesillas &#8211; Philippinen:<\/a> \u201eMord hat nichts mit Demokratie zu tun!\u201c<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2ZK02PKNFdWP4NvKuDD8RR\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Masrat Zarah &#8211; Kashmir:<\/a> \u201eNobody is safe in Kashmir\u201c<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All episodes can also be found here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0l8E3zROOVsZ2PB4L4YbPh?si=MCD2mrlzTcO7YqdAGNUkPA&#038;dl_branch=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPOTIFY<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcast3c23c6.podigee.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PODIGEE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/de\/show\/2609302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0M2MyM2M2LnBvZGlnZWUuaW8vZmVlZC9tcDM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Podcasts<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">40 years Hamburg Foundation for Politically Persecuted People<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; text-align: left;\">The Hamburg Foundation supports politically<\/p>\n<p>persecuted people who, be\u00adcause of advocating<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; text-align: left;\">democracy, freedom and human rights,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; text-align: left;\">find them\u00adselves in a dangerous, often life-threatening<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; text-align: left;\">situation in their native countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2011, Islam Shikhali has been working as an independant journalist, reporting on socio-economic, political, human rights and conflict issues. 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