In Saudi Arabia, Raif Badawi faces the death penalty. “Human rights? What human rights?!” say the despots in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey.
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Sin embargo en Honduras es una utopía, es parte de las estrategias estatales para negar información a los periodistas que no escriben a favor del gobierno de turno.
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In Honduras “the free circulation of ideas and opinions” is a fantasy. It is the state’s policy to deny information to journalists who do not write in favor of the government in power.
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For this month’s column, Tarik Günersel created his own Freedom of Speech roundup, covering the end of September through mid-October.
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Mr. Alvarado, director and presenter of Globo TV’s news programme ‘Mi Nación’ was sentenced to a 16-month prison sentence and a work ban of the same length in December 2013 due to his coverage in 2006 of alleged corruption by a university dean.
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PEN International is shocked by the recent murders of three more journalists in Honduras – Herlyn Iván Espinal Martínez, Nery Francisco Soto Torres and Dagoberto Díaz Suárez (killed 20 July, 14 August and 23 August respectively), which bring to six the death toll for journalists since President Juan Orlando Hernández took office in January 2014.
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PEN International joins English PEN in welcoming the release of activist Maryam Al-Khawaja
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