21.   Prominent Swedish authors and politicians have even donated money to a fund set up to help the three men, posing a legal challenge to authorities.

22.   Toni Morrison, the American writer who won the Nobel Prize last year, was among seven prominent authors flanking Soyinka at the press conference.

23.   The bishop is to be accompanied, among others, by Mangunwijaya, an Indonesian Jesuit priest who is also a prominent author.