Cuban dissidents speak out against the detention of the artist El Sexto, held without trial for more than eight months.
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Cuban activists appeal to Pope Francis for the release of graffiti artist El Sexto, held without trial for over eight months.
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The West expressed outrage over the attacks on Charlie Hebdo’s freedom of expression, but has long stood idly by as China silences its dissenting voices.
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Four decades after the end of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese government official makes a speech echoing the Red Guard’s ultra-leftist sentiment. Could “politics in command” be experiencing a renaissance?
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Tienchi Martin-Liao recounts this year’s June 4 vigil in Hong Kong and she counters the vacillation of a journalist who is seemingly “kowtowing to his patron”, the Chinese Communist Party.
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Deji Olukotun, PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write Fellow, reports on the status of free expression in Myanmar and several burgeoning movements within this country in flux.
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Liu Xia, a poet and wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been under house arrest since October 2010. In this video, secretly recorded in December, Liu reads two of her new works.
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