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Mr. Landor was wary of the state’s prison system, and he kept a copy of a 2017 judicial decision with him.

The first four months of Mr. Landor’s incarceration were uneventful.

After consulting the warden, two guards handcuffed Mr. Landor to a chair, held him down and shaved his head to the scalp.

When the case reached the Fifth Circuit, the same court that had ruled that the law protected Rastafarian prisoners’ dreadlocks, a different three-judge panel said that “we emphatically condemn the treatment that Landor endured.”

"The only way they can carry on reporting is to be forced out of their homes," says the director of the BBC World Service, Liliane Landor.