RAN 05/15 24 February 2015 On 23 February 2015 student activists Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and Pornthip Munkong (f), 26, were each sentenced to two and a half years in prison for violating Thailand’s “lèse-majesté” law. The charge of “lèse-majesté” criminalises...
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‘The right to speak, teach and learn in one’s own mother tongue is a fundamental human right. Language is key to knowing and expressing both one’s culture and one’s self. To deny that right is to erase part of the...
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PEN Afrikaans issued a statement in response to the events that took place during the State of the Nation Address in Parliament on the 12th of February 2015. The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) has, along with many other...
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Professor Anton Harber has written a Daily Maverick piece on the state of South African media and the ANC’s media policy: On a recent morning, I woke up and over a cup of coffee turned to social media. It was...
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By Mandla Langa, Executive Vice President, PEN SA It was with a sense of great sadness that we learnt of the untimely death of André Brink. A quintessentially considerate and polite man, André also participated in non-literary events that coalesced...
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