The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) recently released their detailed and eminently readable 2017 State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa report, So This Is Democracy?. The report shows, among other things, that the media landscape in southern Africa,...
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A new report by PEN has found that many governments in Africa retain criminal defamation laws that make it a crime to say, write or publish anything that they consider defamatory or insulting. The result is a restriction of freedom...
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PEN SA Africa Pulse is a weekly round-up of news concerning cases of freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Africa. PEN SA Statement on the Black Land First Protest Against Peter Bruce PEN South Africa condemns...
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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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PEN South Africa has written to Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos and South African President Jacob Zuma urging them to ensure the release of the 17 Angolan activists, known as the Luanda Book Club, who were sentenced to between...
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