In light of the new year’s Lantern Festival, we take a look back at China’s heightened crackdown on writers, journalists and activists in 2011. Included is an infographic with a timeline detailing major arrests and protests of the last year.
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Several Internet companies, including the Indian subsidiaries of Google and Facebook, announced on 6 February that they had complied with Indian court directives to remove from their sites content deemed objectionable.
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Li Tie was sentenced to 10 years in prison for “subversion of the state authority.” As proof the court cited several articles written by the Maoist writer, including his recent article, “Human Beings’ Heaven Is Human Dignity,” which called for democratic political reform.
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Ecuador: International organizations fear that the lawsuit president Correa is waging against El Universo newspapaer may further self-censorship and limit criticism of the authorities.
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Three poems from Meena Kandasamy’s collection Ms. Militancy are presented to defy the recent persecution of writers like Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin in India. In Ms. Militancy Kandasamy retells Hindu and Tamil mythology through a feminist perspective.
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Despite the planned removal of media censors from Fijian newsrooms, press organizations fear the right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression is still very much under threat.
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The Great People’s Movement, founded by exiled journalist Elnur Majidli, is organizing social activism online to garner participants for public demonstrations, and calls for freedom from dictatorship, corruption, and tyranny, and for the release of political prisoners.
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After the Computer Crime Act came into effect in 2007, Thailand’s freedom of expression has suffered greatly. Gone are days when the country had what was considered one of the region’s freest media.
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Read about the work and experiences of writers, editors, bloggers, cartoonists, journalists–and a musician–from Ireland, Kenya, China, Mexico, Burma, Afghanistan, and other countries around the world.
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John Kampfner, the Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, and Richard Burge from Wilton Park discuss the ‘dark and light’ sides of cyberspace when it comes to freedom of expression.
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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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