RAN 10/15 23 July 2015 Blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was ordered to return to prison immediately on 29 June 2015. He has not complied, as his health remains precarious. He was released from prison on medical grounds on 17 June...
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PEN South Africa President Margie Orford and Executive Vice-President Mandla Langa are among a group of South African activists who have signed a letter, published in The Observer on Sunday, urging the UK government to reconsider its plans to repeal...
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London, 15 July 2015 The release from prison on 14 July 2015 after more than three months in solitary confinement, of Nabeel Rajab, human rights defender, writer and President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), is a welcome...
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Mexico: four journalists killed in two weeks as deadly violence continues London, 8 July 2015 The recent deaths of four more journalists in Mexico in the last month – three of them in the space of a week – is...
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Argentina: Drop charges against author on trial for ‘plagiarising’ Borges in literary experiment London, 3 July 2015 The criminal prosecution of Argentine novelist, poet and university lecturer Pablo Katchadjian is a disproportionate reaction to a literary experiment PEN International and...
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