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. Kenyan media under pressure ahead of the 2017 Elections With elections drawing near in Kenya, the...
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Ethiopian journalist Anania Sorri released from prison In a surprising move, after being kept in prison for four months after his arrest in November 2016, Anania Sorri, an Ethiopian journalist, was released from prison. Sorri is the third journalist 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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On World Refugee Day, PEN International highlights the plight of African journalists and calls on Centres to join assistance programmes to writers in exile. 20 June 2015 New reports this week highlighted that the international community is currently experiencing the...
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London – 24 April 2014 This weekend, the 25 and 26 April 2015, marks the anniversary of the detention of six bloggers and three independent journalists arrested under Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation 2009. One year on there is little to celebrate....
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