In this interview Bina Shah talks about the media representations of Pakistan, the impact of Malala Yousafzai, and the future of women in Pakistan.
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This week: the CCP blocks news sites for the 18th Party Congress, Tibetan self-immolations continue in China, and an interview with poet/ activist Amiri Baraka.
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Khet Mar discusses the prolific career of Burmese journalist, editor, and political activist Maung Wuntha and the new battle he is fighting against lung cancer.
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This week: Green Party candidate Jill Stein on censorship in US elections, the arrest of Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, China censors Twitter ahead of Communist Party congress, Bahrain revokes citizenships, and new gag law limits press freedom in Costa Rica.
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This week, China holds Ai WeiWei’s passport, Taliban threats to Pakistan media, and the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is released.
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Journalists in Sri Lanka contend that since the end of the 25 year civil war in 2009, their situation has actually worsened. Print and online publications are threatened or censored regularly, and by 2010 at least half a dozen writers fled the country.
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As Egypt holds vote, Egyptian-American journalist, Mona Eltahawy, recounts her arrest for 12 hours by Egypt’s security forces on November 23 near Tahrir Square, during which time she was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted.
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To mark IFEX’s International Day to End Impunity, we asked Latin American writers who have contributed to Sampsonia Way to write about the importance of fighting impunity in their home countries.
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A demonstration against religious persecution of Coptic Christians turned fatal, and led to increased media censorship from Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
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Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque has faced death threats in the past, but never from within the Colombian intelligence. She is still waiting to hear back from President Juan Manuel Santos about her request for an investigation.
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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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