This week: three newspaper employees murdered in Bengali, Facebook makes a human rights commitment, and Bahrain’s “Blogfather” granted asylum in the U.K.
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This week: Bulgarian journalist threatened for uncovering communist crimes, new documentary on female bloggers, and prison censorship in the United States.
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PEN Turkey President and columnist Tarik Günersel presents several cases from Turkey of falsely imprisoned and targeted journalists and writers.
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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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Every year from November to February English PEN releases a list of writers in prison, and provides addresses or email addresses for each of them. This part of the program Season’s Greetings, which calls on people to send a card to one of the many writers in prison that PEN supports.
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Carta del cubano Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso, periodista y poeta exiliado en España, a los asistentes de la conferencia anual del Comité de Escritores en Prisión de PEN Internacional.
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A statement by Cuban exiled journalist and poet Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso to the PEN International Writers in Prison Committee annual conference in Brussels.
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The following speech was given by WiPC Chair Marian Botsford Fraser the opening event of the Passa Porta Literary Festival in Brussels. She talked about current cases in China, Afghanistan, Mexico and Cuba.
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Last week, Brussels, Belgium was an epicenter of international literature and a meeting point for literary freedom of speech. Sampsonia Way’s managing editor, Silvia Duarte, traveled there and met some writers, organizers and representatives from all the organizations in attendance.
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