By PEN SA Vice-President Raymond Louw This piece was originally published by Business Day here Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema’s tirade against The New Age newspaper and ANN7 television station, during which he said journalists from...
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London, 3 February 2016 The decision by Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court to rule that criminal defamation laws are invalid and unconstitutional is a positive development that should be replicated across the continent, PEN International said today. ‘PEN International has been campaigning...
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By Ishtiyaq Shukri Like all those who campaigned against the death sentence handed down to the Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh by a court in Saudi Arabia last year, I was at first relieved when I heard that the death sentence...
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2 February 2016 A Saudi Arabian court today replaced a death sentence for Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, with an eight year prison term and 800 lashes on charges of apostasy. Since a death sentence was handed down on 20 November...
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15 January 2015 PEN International calls for the immediate release of 12 academics in Turkey, arrested for signing a statement denouncing attacks on ‘Kurdish and other peoples’ and for investigations into 1,116 other academics to be dropped. Turkish authorities detained...
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