15 January 2016 As human rights defender Dr. Al-Singace enters 300th day of hunger strike, NGOs call for his immediate release NGOs from the around the world call for the immediate release of prisoner of conscience Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace on...
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Deadline: 20 February 2016 The Department of Journalism at Wits University, together with PEN South Africa, is embarking on a series of events in 2016 to encourage public discourse on freedom of expression in South Africa and to examine the...
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A Worldwide Reading in support of Ashraf has been organised by the international literature festival Berlin (ilb) for today, the 14th January 2016. Ashraf is a Palestinian poet that has been sentenced to death for apostasy in Saudi Arabia. PEN...
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PEN Africa Network (PAN), the umbrella body of African Centres of PEN International, has learnt with shock and dismay the suspension of Denis Galava, the Managing Editor (Special Projects) of Kenya’s Nation Media Group (NMG) owned by the Aga Khan,...
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London, 6 January 2016 An upsurge in cases of possible enforced disappearances in China in the context of an ongoing crackdown on dissent is deeply worrying, PEN International, the global writers’ organisation said today. Since November 2015, five Chinese writers,...
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