This week: Jordanian online news sites protests new censorship laws with web blackout; social media’s role in sparking religious violence in India raises questions about justified cyber censorship; plus news and analysis from Ivory Coast, Egypt, South Korea, Turkey.
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In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature.
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“The London Book Fair is not only a cultural event, but also an enormous commercial chance for Britain,” writes Tienchi Martin-Liao, president of Independent Chinese PEN, of China’s massive presence at this year’s installment of the literary festival.
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Released from jail after one year’s incarceration, renowned Turkish investigative journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener remain on trial with 11 other reporters for being suspected members of alleged terrorist group Ergenekon.
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In this interview, Liao Yiwu talks to Maxine Case about his books, his struggles with the Chinese government, and related a few anecdotes about people on the fringe of Chinese society that he has interviewed and whose stories he had recorded.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao, Independent Chinese PEN Center President, gave a forceful speech at the opening event of the Passa Porta Literary Festival in Brussels. Read the speech in its entirety in this Sampsonia Way exclusive.
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In this interview, Paul Buekenhout, Passa Porta project coordinator, talks about this great, sui generis project. Passa Porta is Brussels’ international house of literature: a meeting place for readers and writers, a space where the link between Dutch, French, and foreign-language literature is reinforced.
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