Eritrea’s forgotten journalists, still jailed after 14 years The country is ranked worst in the world for press freedom, its writers locked in secret jails. Here, PEN Eritrea profiles the men who fought for a free press, and paid the...
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Click here to read the minutes from the international meeting of the PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC), held in Barcelona in April 2015, as well as some of the articles that were presented. Adré Marshall, PEN South...
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London, 7 August 2015 The murder today of Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chakrabarti is a harrowing reminder of the need for strengthened protection mechanisms for writers in a country that is witnessing an ever-deepening pattern of violence, PEN International said today....
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International press freedom organizations call on Burundi authorities to investigate attacks on journalists and human rights defenders 5 August 2015 The undersigned press freedom, media development and human rights organizations denounce the continued attacks on and threats to journalists, media...
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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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