A German journalist is being held in Turkey on charges of creating propaganda in support of a terrorist organization and inciting the public to violence.
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Can some countries prevent the media from full access based on it being a risk to security? Can conflict be a genuine excuse for censorship and the restriction of free expression?
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Zone 9 bloggers were charged with terrorism on July 17. PEN American Center’s Deji Olukotun sheds light on the effects of these strictures, which are constraining free expression throughout Ethiopia.
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“Half of every story in Thailand is Royal… How can we write anything, even a historic novel, when we’re only allowed to touch the subject by praising them in a way that seems too unbelievable to be true?” Thai writer Marisa Akara calls attention to the stifling effects of the vice-like lèse-majesté law.
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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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Hamdy el-Gazzar on the “Sisi” presidential election, Egyptian women, and the beautiful art of dancing that serves as a regular backdrop to life events.
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In contrast to journalists, Russian writers are today freer to write about what they want. Natasha Perova, editor of the literary magazine Glas, explains what is currently happening in Russian literature.
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