Booker-prize winner, Kiran Desai, talks with PEN International’s Sarah Clarke about threats to freedom of expression in India and the role of PEN. The interview was took place at PEN’s 79th Congress in Iceland in September 2013, where Desai spoke on behalf of the newly launched PEN Delhi Centre.
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Nearly 800 writers, poets, journalists, translators, and editors are currently in prison around the world. Approximately one tenth of them are in Turkey, where an Anti-Terror Law has been broadly applied to target writers. Here PEN Turkey president explains and names the writers under threat.
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More than 600 journalists, media workers and social media producers have been killed in the last ten years. To put an end to violence against journalists, the United Nations has developed the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity.
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In the wake of a recent wave of arrests aimed to smother free speech in China, Tienchi Martin-Liao examines the laws most frequently used to charge dissidents and influential social media voices, and how they’ve been modified to include new offenses.
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This week: Turkish government cracking down on journalists, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Voice Tunnel” in NYC, and problems with the UK’s proposed internet filters.
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This week: Myanmar pledges to free political prisoners, Somalia puts age restrictions on journalists, and Turkey journalists abused by police.
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Burmese journalist Tu Tu Tha describes returning to Burma after living exile for years, the progress that has made, and how much more still needs to change.
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