In the first edition of Sampsonia Way‘s interview series with free speech defenders, PEN Turkey president Tarik Günersel sat down with us to discuss Turkey, language, and the establishment of World Poetry Day.
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“More than once I’ve asked myself what type of writer I might have been, what type of works I might have written, if I hadn’t spent so many hours of my life in a bar, squandering my vital energy and saturating my senses.”
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Reporters Without Borders reiterates its concern about the fate of journalists and bloggers who have disappeared or who have been kidnapped over the course of the past nine months of protests against Bashar Al-Assad’s government.
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Turkmenistan has the world’s third most suppressed media, followed only by North Korea and Eritrea. However, the coverage of a deadly explosion marked the unprecedented emergence of citizen journalism in one of the world’s most isolated countries.
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Following an opinion-editorial that called President Kagame a “sociopath”, the Rwandan magazine Ishema has not only issued an entire edition dedicated to apology, an editor has resigned, a Rwandan newspaper organization suspended its publisher, and the magazine suspended itself for a month.
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Political prisoners of Cuba’s Black Spring have been freed, but for some life in exile has hardly improved since being released from prison. Most of the activists were forced to accept exile as a condition of their release.
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The arrest of Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener in March this year has put press freedom in Turkey under the international spotlight. CPJ’s Robert Mahoney sent written questions to the reporters in their Istanbul jail. Read their replies.
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