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Ethiopia sentenced Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye to 11 years in prison for supporting terrorism and illegally entering the country. Ethiopia has a far-reaching Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, with seven journalists now imprisoned, and the world’s largest number of exiled journalists in the last decade.
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Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has expressed her sadness at the death of former Czech President Václav Havel. Suu Kyi often cited Havel’s well-known writings, including quotes from “The Power of the Powerless,” in interviews and in her speeches.
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A transcript from a live Facebook interview hosted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with Alexander Lukashuk and Jan Maksymiuk, two correspondents from its Belarus Service (Radio Svaboda).
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The European Union plans to help human-rights activist worldwide by providing them with the means and the knowledge to communicate on the Internet without being spied on or traced by their governments.
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The former president of the Czech Republic, founded the International Parliament of Writers, which later led to the establishment of the International Cities of Refuge Network and the Cities of Asylum in USA.
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This December, we remember the work of Liu Xiaobo, Chinese activist writer, literary critic, co-author of Charter 08, and Nobel Laureate, who is currently serving an 11-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.”
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