Tienchi Martin-Liao recounts this year’s June 4 vigil in Hong Kong and she counters the vacillation of a journalist who is seemingly “kowtowing to his patron”, the Chinese Communist Party.
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In this installment of The Freedom Chat, correspondent Nazeeha Saeed discusses the status of free speech in Bahrain and an unfortunate aftershock of the 2011 uprising.
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In this original article published by PEN American Center, writer and critic of China’s Communist regime, Liao Yiwu, divulges his personal account of June 4, 1989 and the aftermath that continues to pervade Chinese society.
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Orlando Pardo Lazo calls for solidarity to combat abusive attacks in Cuba on journalists, such as the brutal beating of Roberto Guerra on June 11.
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Orlando Pardo Lazo calls for solidarity to combat abusive attacks on Cuban journalists, such as the brutal beating of Roberto Guerra on June 11.
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ISIS imbues an indelible and bloody mark on Iraq. Payam Boromand of Iran illustrates this serious threat to the integrity of the country in today’s Curated Cartoons.
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Tarik Gunersel describes the rise of ISIS in the Middle East – “the armed organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” – and how this radical body is feeding into the Turkish PM’s move away from all things secular.
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Cartoonist Saad Murtadha of Iraq calls attention to the monstrous effects of using social media to recruit new members for ISIS.
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Rachida Madani sees herself as “a poet armed with words to bear witness and revolt against injustice, social inequality, women’s conditions in a patriarchal society, men’s superiority complex, despotism, and a lack of freedom of expression.” In this edition of The Writer’s Block, Rachida spoke about language, womanhood, and reinventing Scheherazade.
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Deji Olukotun, PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write Fellow, reports on the status of free expression in Myanmar and several burgeoning movements within this country in flux.
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