This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. Renowned novelist and PEN member Aslı Erdoğan was arrested at her home in Istanbul on 17 August...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. In October 2015, publisher Gui Minhai disappeared from his holiday home in Thailand. Three months later he...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. Journalism graduate, student leader, and board member and founding member of PEN Honduras, Cesario Alejandro Félix Padilla...
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In September 2016, an appeals court upheld the prison sentence handed down to Iranian journalist Narges Mohammadi by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran in May this year. Mohammadi had been sentenced to five years in prison for ‘gathering and colluding...
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Statement from PEN International 5 September 2016 Update #1 to RAN 05/15 PEN International welcomes the early release of student activists Patiwat Saraiyaem, 26 and Pornthip Munkong (f), 29, following a royal pardon. Saraiyaem was released on 12 August 2016,...
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