Pictured: Raymond Louw, PEN South Africa, and Frankie Asare-Donkoh, PEN Ghana PEN South Africa’s Vice-President Raymond Louw attended the PEN International 81st Congress in Quebec City, Canada and has written about the resolutions put forward by the Centre Read Jean,...
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London, 28 May 2015 The reinstatement of criminal defamation charges against Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais just days after similar charges were dropped by a court is a deeply worrying development and calls into question the independence of the...
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Rights Organisations Welcome The Decision Of African Court To Strike Down Burkina Faso’s Criminal Defamation Law And Call On African Governments To Repeal Similar Laws Media and human rights organisations are delighted with today’s decision of the African Court on...
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RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS WELCOME THE DECISION OF AFRICAN COURT TO STRIKE DOWN BURKINA FASO’S CRIMINAL DEFAMATION LAW AND CALL ON AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS TO REPEAL SIMILAR LAWS Media and human rights organisations are delighted with today’s decision of the African Court on...
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18 Non-Government Organisations will appear at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, in Arusha, Tanzania, today, as amici curiae (friends of the court) pertaining to the matter of Lohé Issa Konaté, editor of Burkina Faso weekly newspaper L’Ouragan,...
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