Chairman of Solidarity, 1980-1990. President of Poland, 1990-1995. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 1982.

Head of State in 1990 when Lithuania declared independence. Member of the European Parliament.

Chinese dissident. Electrician. Spent 19 years in Jail. Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

Musician. Member, Plastic People of the Universe

Polish dissident. Former political Prisoner. President, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe.

Chinese dissident. All-Saint Bookstore owner. Leader in 1989 Tiananmen protest. Political prisoner for one year.

Solidarity leader. Former political prisoner. Engineer.

Student activist in 1989. Lost both legs when tank came in.

Former KGB general. Member of the Supreme Soviet, 1990. Boris Yeltsin supporter. Author of Spymaster.

Chinese dissident. Scholar. Pro-democracy movement leader in 1989.

Former Permanent Representative to UN for the Czech Republic. Signer of Charter 77.

Chinese dissident. Accused of being the "black hand" in Tiananmen. Sentenced to 15 years.

Former political prisoner in Hungary. Writer, editor, and publisher. OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, 2004-2010

Hungarian freedom fighter, 1956. Award winning chemical engineer.