Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, Last week in Paris I went to the site of the Charlie Hebdo murders with Emmanuel Pierrat of French PEN, Jarkko Tontti, Carles Torner and Sarah Clarke from our Secretariat. We placed flowers and a...
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SA PEN, English PEN, PEN International, French PEN, PEN Lebanon, PEN Turkey and PEN American Center condemn the unprecedented attack on the office of the French publication Charlie Hebdo in Paris yesterday (08/01/2014) in which 12 people died and seven...
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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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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, A few weeks ago, two hundred and fifty writers from almost 80 PEN Centres came together in Bishkek. Nothing like this has been tried before. And it probably would not have been possible elsewhere in...
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