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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Statement from PEN International: 27 June 2016 PEN International is deeply concerned by the recent closure of The Post, Zambia’s leading independent daily newspaper. The closure stems from a dispute with the Zambia Revenue Authority which alleges that The Post...
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Notebook from PEN International: London, 24 June 2016 It is not often that I get to write a letter with some good news. But a few good things happened in the last few weeks, and therefore it is good to...
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Statement from PEN International: 23 June 2016 RAN 12/16 PEN International has learned that blogger Zelalem Workagegnehu’s appeal against his sentence of five years and two months in prison on terrorism charges will be heard on 6 July 2016. Detained...
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PEN South Africa has expressed a strong protest at the suspension of three senior South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) journalists apparently for protesting at a news conference at an order prohibiting them from covering a Right2Know protest outside the SABC...
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