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Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador (2007 - 2017) y Prófugo de la Justicia
Thomas Paine
American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
Pol Pot
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1925–1998)
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Tunisian politician
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Belarusian politician, educator, and pro-democracy activist (born 1982)
Alfonso XIII
King of Spain from 1886 to 1931 (1886–1941)
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)
Alcibiades
Alcibiades (; ; 450 – 404 BC) was an Athenian statesman and general. The last of the Alcmaeonidae, he played a major role in the second half of the Peloponnesian War as a strategic advisor, military commander, and politician, but subsequently fell from prominence.
Blaise Compaoré
President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014
Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Kyrgyzstani politician
Mauricio Funes
President of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini
Palestinian Arab nationalist (1897–1974)
Ioannis Metaxas
Greek military officer and politician (1871–1941)
Igor Girkin
Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass
Dmitry Yazov
Soviet minister of defence (1924-2020)
Salvatore Riina
Sicilian mafia boss (1930–2017)
Maurice Thorez
French politician (1900-1964)
Yakubu Gowon
Nigerian politician and Military general
Aliaksandra Herasimenia
Female swimmer from Belarus
Bernardo Provenzano
Italian mob boss
Matteo Messina Denaro
Italian mob boss (1962–2023)
Ruja Ignatova
Bulgarian businesswoman, prosecuted for cryptocurrency fraud
trial in absentia
criminal proceeding in which the defendant is not physically present
Ahmed Chalabi
Iraqi politician (1945–2015)
Slobodan Jovanović
Serbian jurist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and literary critic
Amr Waked
Egyptian actor
Denis Nikitin
Russian far-right activist and entrepreneur, the founder and representative member of the Russian Volunteer Corps
Maxim Martsinkevich
Russian neo-Nazi
Irakli Okruashvili
Georgian politician
Maxim Katz
Russian political and public figure
Marcel Minnaert
Belgian-Dutch astronomer (1893–1970)
Veranika Capkała
Belarusian public activist
Pavał Łatuška
Belarusian diplomat and politician
Valer Capkała
Belarusian politician and diplomat
Momčilo Đujić
Croatian Serb Chetnik commander (1907-1999)
Volha Kavalkova
Belarusian politician
Muhammad Zaidan
Palestinian politician (1948-2004)
Gregorij Rožman
Slovenian Roman Catholic prelate and theologian (1883–1959)
Alfredo Astiz
Argentine intelligence officer, convicted murderer and spy for Argentina's last dictatorship
Tulip Siddiq
British politician (born 1982)
Franak Viacorka
Belarusian politician
Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Lord Chancellor of England, Earl of Suffolk
Stepan Putilo
Belarusian blogger
Cesare Battisti
Italian former terrorist and murderer
Aref al-Aref
Palestinian journalist, historian and politician (1891-1973)
Vintilă Horia
20th century Romanian writer
Albert Spaggiari
French criminal (1932–1989)
Yann Fouéré
Breton activist; european federalist (1910–2011)
Ira Einhorn
American murderer (1940–2020)
Olga Kachura
Donbass pro-Russian
Clara Thalmann
Swiss anarchist (1908-1987)
Eugene Koffi Adoboli
UN Diplomate and former Prime Minister of Togo
Sergei Dylevsky
tractor factor worker and member of presidium of Coordination Council of Belarus
Božidar Purić
Serbian politician (1891-1977)
Michael Townley
American murderer
Benedetto Santapaola
Italian mafioso (1938–2026)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Puerto Rican political activist (1933–2005)
Khalid Latif
Pakistani cricketer
Omar Bakri Muhammad
Islamist militant leader
Ali Mamlouk
Syrian intelligence officer