Dear President Erdoğan As writers, journalists and members of PEN, we are writing to express our extreme concern about the current crackdown on freedom of expression in Turkey. Last week, VICE News’s team was detained in Turkey while reporting in...
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3 August 2015 Update #2 to RAN 09/14 PEN International fears for the deteriorating health of veteran journalist Gao Yu, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for ‘leaking state secrets abroad’ handed down by the Beijing Third Intermediate...
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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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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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