In this Freedom Chat, Ruki Fernando, a Sri Lankan human rights defender, discusses impunity, war crimes, and militant Buddhism.
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The Dream of My Return is the newest novel by City of Asylum writer-in-residence Horacio Castellanos Moya.
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Payam Feili was the first writer in Iran who openly wrote about his sexual orientation, in a number of works which he has been unable to publish in Iran. Threats against him forced him to leave the country. Here he tells his story.
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Betre Yacob is currently in exile from Ethiopia for publishing articles exposing human rights conditions and corruption. Editorial intern Emily Durham spoke with Betre on exile, censorship, and freedom of speech conditions.
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“I send all dried fruits to the soldiers before they rot / So it can fashion the tongue to speak.” Here are two new poems by Elham Malekpoor, an exiled Iranian poet and LGBT and human rights activist.
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I was born a few days before the end of 1970, but as it is for every Iranian of my generation, my story truly begins with the revolution. The events of 1979 transformed our world in ways that we are still struggling to understand.
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In Ethiopia, journalists are often presumed “guilty until proven innocent.” For his first column with Sampsonia Way, Chalachew Tadesse overviews the deterioration of Ethiopia’s press freedom.
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