Photograph of PAN and TLRC meeting members courtesy of PEN International By Raymond Louw, PEN SA Vice-President The PAN meeting was held in advance of a meeting by the PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee under the title: In...
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12 May 2016 On 3 May 2016 – international World Press Freedom Day – a court in Lima found journalist and author Rafael León Rodríguez (Rafo León) guilty of ‘aggravated defamation’ of a fellow journalist on the basis of a...
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3 May 2016 The 2015 Case List, published today by PEN International, spotlights freedom of expression violations around the world, detailing over 1000 cases of harassment, arrests, attacks, killings and imprisonments of writers worldwide and highlights the worldwide deterioration in...
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3 May 2016 PEN SA would like to note the following in addition to the below statement: “One bright spot in the media picture in Southern Africa is the announcement by the ruling African National Congress in South Africa that...
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London, 3 February 2016 The decision by Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court to rule that criminal defamation laws are invalid and unconstitutional is a positive development that should be replicated across the continent, PEN International said today. ‘PEN International has been campaigning...
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