French-Martinican writer and filmmaker Fabienne Kanor has been a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh for the past three months. Before returning to France, City of Asylum hosted a reading for her and Marvin Victor, another writer-in-residence. […]
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Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the editor of the Prachatai Thai news website, faces a possible 20-year jail sentence for not removing certain comments against the monarchy from her website quickly enough.
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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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A video of acclaimed circus act The Flying Wallendas performing to a recording of Salman Rushdie’s reading of his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet at City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s Jazz Poetry Concert.
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The Art of Freedom film festival awarded the Best Short Documentary prize to “Click in Fear,” a film about journalist Law Eh Soe. Burma’s first film festival featured uncensored films, some of which are critical of the former military regime.
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Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman interviews acclaimed novelist Russell Banks, author of “Cloudsplitter,” “Affliction,” and “Lost Memory of Skin.” Banks, a former chairman of Cities of Refuge North America, invited City of Asylum Pittsburgh founders to join the US network.
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Poet, translator and political commentator Ko Ko Thett reviews the documentary film They Call It Myanmar, which he describes as “sobering even for a Burmese” for its graphic portrayal of destitution in Burma.
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