RAN 10/15 23 July 2015 Blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was ordered to return to prison immediately on 29 June 2015. He has not complied, as his health remains precarious. He was released from prison on medical grounds on 17 June...
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London, 15 July 2015 The release from prison on 14 July 2015 after more than three months in solitary confinement, of Nabeel Rajab, human rights defender, writer and President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), is a welcome...
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Argentina: Drop charges against author on trial for ‘plagiarising’ Borges in literary experiment London, 3 July 2015 The criminal prosecution of Argentine novelist, poet and university lecturer Pablo Katchadjian is a disproportionate reaction to a literary experiment PEN International and...
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The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International has shared vidoes from the WiPC Conference held in Amsterdam in May this year. Watch the videos below: Keynote address by David Kaye Free Speech vs. Hate Speech: Creative Resistance The...
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12 June 2015 RAN 09/15 Writer and film producer Mostafa Azizi was arrested on 1 February 2015 and convicted of national security-related offences by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran and sentenced to eight years in prison. Though...
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