The Iranian writer, lawyer, and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh has first-hand experience dealing with threats to freedom of expression. She is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence.
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Ran Yunfei, Chinese blogger, author, and outspoken free speech advocate, was released Tuesday from a detention center in the city of Dujiangyan where he was held for almost six months.
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Amal Habani is the second journalist to be sent to jail for reporting on the rape of Darfuri activist Safiya Ishaq by Sudanese security forces. This government crackdown on reporters and activists is part of a larger anti-media trend.
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Fed up with conditions in what the western media has called Europe’s last dictatorship, thousands of Belarusians have expressed their discontent in a strikingly unorthodox fashion: clapping.
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In this interview, writer Philo Ikonya talks about her writing, activism, being a mother in exile, and freedom of expression in Kenya. Now president of PEN Kenya, Ikonya has been arrested multiple times for protesting, was severely beaten while in police custody in 2009.
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Exiled writer Ali al-Jallawi explains to us via email from a Germany his history of arrests, the struggles of being in exile, and the changes he would like to see in his country.
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Video journalist Hla Hla Win was sentenced to 27 years in jail in Burma for interviewing a monk during the 2007 ‘Saffron Revolution’ failed uprising.
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The documentary Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour, recorded before Ai’s arrest, provides cultural and political context to his provocative work, as well as a glimpse into the artist’s life.
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Nery Jeremías Orellana is one of 12 journalists killed in the last 18 months in Honduras. A supporter of recently ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Orellana was a member of the Popular Resistance Front, an opposition movement.
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Hu Jia, a political activist imprisoned since 2008, was released by Chinese authorities on June 26, 2011. He reunited with his wife, Zeng Jinyan, a well-known activist blogger.
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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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