‘Beyond those gates, another world, another race, a people poisoned and oppressed by woe; they stared wearily at us, the prisoners we faced, with sunken eyes, lack-lustre, circled with sorrow’ – extract from ‘From Evin to Raja’I Shah’ in Prison...
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By Ishtiyaq Shukri Like all those who campaigned against the death sentence handed down to the Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh by a court in Saudi Arabia last year, I was at first relieved when I heard that the death sentence...
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2 February 2016 A Saudi Arabian court today replaced a death sentence for Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, with an eight year prison term and 800 lashes on charges of apostasy. Since a death sentence was handed down on 20 November...
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15 January 2015 PEN International calls for the immediate release of 12 academics in Turkey, arrested for signing a statement denouncing attacks on ‘Kurdish and other peoples’ and for investigations into 1,116 other academics to be dropped. Turkish authorities detained...
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15 January 2016 As human rights defender Dr. Al-Singace enters 300th day of hunger strike, NGOs call for his immediate release NGOs from the around the world call for the immediate release of prisoner of conscience Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace on...
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