PEN SA Africa Pulse is a weekly round-up of news concerning cases of freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Africa. Ahmed Naji: ‘Prison made me believe in literature more’ In 2016, Egyptian novelist, Ahmed Naji, was...
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The Day of the Imprisoned Writer is held by PEN every year on 15 November to highlight and campaign for writers that are facing charges or who have been imprisoned for expressing themselves. The five cases that PEN is focusing...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. Novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji is currently serving a two-year prison sentence in Egypt for ‘violating public...
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