This year, Sampsonia Way introduced The Freedom Chats, a new series that features interviews with journalists and other international media personalities who face censorship and repression in their home countries. Join us in reviewing the most viewed Freedom Chats from 2014.
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Sixty world leaders and dignitaries attended Sunday’s solidarity rally in Paris, leaping at the occasion to be seen as “staunch defenders” of the press, even while many of them are guilty of suppressing free speech themselves.
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Human rights defender Maryam Al-Khawaja outlines her decision to boycott her December 1, 2014 court hearing, where she was due to be sentenced on trumped up charges of assaulting two policewomen at the Bahrain International Airport
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Time and time again, the Bahrain regime has demonstrated its intolerance for any dissent. Activists like Maryam, her sister and her father know the grave risks they face, yet they continue to fight for freedom.
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PEN International joins English PEN in welcoming the release of activist Maryam Al-Khawaja
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Nazeeha Saeed, who was imprisoned and tortured during the pro-democracy protests in 2011, discusses the state of journalism in Bahrain and her struggle for justice in this edition of The Freedom Chat.
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In this installment of The Freedom Chat, correspondent Nazeeha Saeed discusses the status of free speech in Bahrain and an unfortunate aftershock of the 2011 uprising.
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