Statement from PEN International: 19 July 2016 – There are disturbing signs of an intensified crackdown on freedom of expression, including online freedom, as well as attacks on journalists by non-state actors in Turkey, following the attempted military coup on...
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17 June, 2016 20 June is World Refugee Day. As the world faces the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II, what’s becoming increasingly clear is that world’s system for protecting refugees is not working, it is...
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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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Can Dündar, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, Erdem Gül, the paper’s Ankara representative, plus some other 30 journalists are still in prison. The writers have been held since November 26. They were charged with espionage and other national security...
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27 November, 2015 PEN International, English PEN and PEN South Africa are seriously concerned by the arrest and pre-trial detention of Can Dϋndar and Erdem Gul who were detained following the charges announced by a court in Istanbul of spying...
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