Ran Yunfei, Chinese blogger, author, and outspoken free speech advocate, was released Tuesday from a detention center in the city of Dujiangyan where he was held for almost six months.
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In this video, Gary Shteyngart answers live-Tweeted questions about his novel Super Sad True Love Story and and speaks with Eric Shiner, The Warhol Museum Director, at a City of Asylum/Pittsburgh reading.
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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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Index on Censorship has published the shortlist for the Freedom of Expression Awards 2011. The awards honor those who, often at great personal risk, give voice to issues and stories from around the globe that may otherwise have passed unnoticed.
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Yukiko Konosu has been updating SW on the situation in Japan through Twitter. Konosu is a literary critic and translator of more than sixty books, which include J.M.Coetzee’s Disgrace and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin. She translated Maxine Case’s Homing Pigeons to Japanese and share it with our magazine. She lives in Tokyo.
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It’s clear that Twitter and Facebook are an important aid in spreading the message of the Egyptian protesters to the rest of the country and to the world. Two Egyptian protesters explain how the human voice is still the powerful instrument — with or without the help of social media.
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Inji Hassan writes about her experience during anti-Mubarak protests in Cairo: she details the unity and generosity of Egyptian protesters, the hope for democracy, and the power of Twitter.
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