Statement from PEN International: 19 July 2016 – There are disturbing signs of an intensified crackdown on freedom of expression, including online freedom, as well as attacks on journalists by non-state actors in Turkey, following the attempted military coup on...
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PEN South Africa, one of the two South African affiliates of the international institution composed of writers, poets, editors and journalists, who promote literature and freedom of expression, is outraged at the summary dismissal of eight journalists by the SA...
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When the Copyright Amendment Bill was tabled last year, both PEN SA and PEN Afrikaans submitted comments (read PEN SA’s statement here) and informed their members, consisting of writers, publishers, translators, editors and journalists, of the possible detrimental effects the...
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Statement from the Southern Africa Litigation Centre: 12 July, 2016 The undersigned organisations condemn the increasing acts of harassment and intimidation against journalists in Lesotho, exemplified by the recent attack against the editor of the Lesotho Times newspaper and the...
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Statement from PEN International: 08 July 2016 Update #1 to RAN 07/16 PEN International welcomes the decision by the Angolan Supreme Court on 29 June 2016 to conditionally release writer Domingos da Cruz and 16 activists jailed alongside him in...
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