In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature. This week news from Russia, Tibet, Iran, the Americas, and Julian Assange.
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“All displacement is natural until the ulterior motives of a government make it unnatural.” In this week’s Night Watch column, Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno reflects on the relationships between time, memory, and life in exile.
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On May 5 COAP will be concluding it’s Reading the World 2012 series with three presentations under the event Exiled Voices of Iran. The final presentation is a free concert from The Casualty Process, an Iranian electronic rock band in exile.
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In this interview novelist Ismet Prcic discusses the seven year process of writing Shards, the sometimes fine line between reality and fiction in the novel, and the ways in which war can restructure the fabric of life as we know it.
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Last year the Syrian political cartoonist Ali Ferzat was abducted and severely beaten by masked men as he left his studio in Damascus. Despite the assault, he has neither abandoned his criticism of Assad’s regime, nor his support of the Syrian Uprising.
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Faraj Bayrakdar spent 14 years as a political prisoner, living horrors of torture and solitude until his release in 2000. In this interview, he talks about prison, torture, and the Arab Spring.
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Journalists in Sri Lanka contend that since the end of the 25 year civil war in 2009, their situation has actually worsened. Print and online publications are threatened or censored regularly, and by 2010 at least half a dozen writers fled the country.
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