Adem Demaçi (born 26 February 1936 in Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo) is a Kosovo Albanian writer and politician and a longtime political prisoner who spent a total of 29 years in prison for speaking out against the treatment of the ethnic Albanians in Yugoslavia as well as criticising communism and the government of Josip Broz Tito. During his imprisonment, he was recognised as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, and he is often referred to as "the Nelson Mandela of Kosovo".