Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo spoke with Sampsonia Way on how he views himself as a writer, his least favorite interview questions, and why he can’t stop writing.
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This week: circumventing Internet censorship with Tor, Burmese newspapers going daily, and analyzing Chinese government’s censorship of Weibo posts.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo argues that even though journalist Yoani Sanchez is now able to travel abroad, “Castroism” continues to affect her off the island.
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Despite facing censorship and interference from Chinese authorities, blogger Li Chengpeng’s recently published The Whole World Knows became a phenomenal success.
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This week: Turkey labeled the ‘world’s biggest prison’ for media, defining freedom of speech in Egypt, a Cuban blogger embarks on a world tour.
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Blogger Nay Phone Latt provided vital information to the outside world during Burma’s Saffron Revolution. This earned him a twenty-year jail sentence and a charge of “creating public alarm.”
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Khet Mar profiles blogger Nay Phone Latt who was sentenced to twenty years in prison for providing information to foreign media during the Saffron Revolution.
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In 2010 Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu was forced to live in the Narita Airport for 92 days while trying to return to China. Now the activist has been stuck under house arrest for 200 days without any legal justification.
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Democracy Now speaks to Fattah about the Egyptian revolution’s ongoing struggle against the military regime and his ordeal in one of Egypt’s worst prisons.
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In this letter smuggled out of prison, prominent blogger Allaa Abdel Fattah details his treatment in jail and accuses the military of hijacking the government.
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Sampsonia Way's companion guide to City of Asylum’s Exiled Voice of China and Tibet literary event, featuring standout pieces from its three year coverage of exiled and persecuted writers. READ
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