This year marks the 34th annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer, an international day that recognises writers who have suffered persecution as a result of exercising their right to freedom of expression. This is one of the five cases that...
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This year marks the 34th annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer, an international day that recognises writers who have suffered persecution as a result of exercising their right to freedom of expression. This is one of the five cases that...
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RAPID ACTION NETWORK 14 September 2015 RAN 11/15 PEN International is deeply concerned that Vladimir Kozlov, Kazakh journalist, human rights defender and a leader of Alga!, a political opposition party who is serving a lengthy prison sentence for his peaceful...
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14 September 2015 Update #1 to RAN 02/15 PEN International is deeply concerned by the seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed out to Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on 1 September 2015. Ismayilova was convicted of “economic crimes, including illegal entrepreneurship and...
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08 September 2015 The arrest of Dutch journalist, Frederike Geerdink, is yet another example of the worsening condition for freedom of expression in Turkey, PEN International, PEN Turkey and PEN Netherlands said today. PEN is calling on the Turkish authorities...
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