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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Bina Shah writes about her recent trip to China and about the perils and uncertainties of having your work translated in a restrictive environment.
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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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Liao Yiwu, recent winner of the Friedenspreis prize in Germany, has received worldwide recognition for his writing; however, in China he is derided as a loser.
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This week, freedom of speech on college campuses, Turkey’s press freedom crisis, radio journalist injured in Somalia, and Ai Weiwei’s video censored in China.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao reflects on Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan who has been criticized for his cooperation with China’s government and for advocating censorship.
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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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