1 June 2015 Eritrea: Authorities must clarify fate of Dawit Isaak and other journalists detained without trial for 5,000 days Tomorrow marks 5,000 days since the Swedish-Eritrean writer and journalist Dawit Isaak and nine other Eritrean journalists were arrested on...
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London, 28 May 2015 The reinstatement of criminal defamation charges against Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais just days after similar charges were dropped by a court is a deeply worrying development and calls into question the independence of the...
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London – 22 May 2015 The Brazilian authorities must ensure that a swift and thorough investigation is carried out into the killing of Brazilian blogger, Evany José Metzker, found decapitated on 18 May 2015, and all other unsolved murders of...
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RAN 04/15 Update #2 22 May 2015 PEN International is concerned by the ongoing trial for alleged defamation of writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker Can Dündar, who is also the editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet. Dündar could face up...
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The PEN Africa Network (PAN), the umbrella body of PEN International Centres in Africa, calls on the authorities of Burkino Faso to immediately lift the three-month suspension of live political broadcasts by the country’s media. Burkino Faso goes to the...
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