Sixty world leaders and dignitaries attended Sunday’s solidarity rally in Paris, leaping at the occasion to be seen as “staunch defenders” of the press, even while many of them are guilty of suppressing free speech themselves.
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Shezanne Cassim, an American citizen, is being held in a maximum-security prison in the United Arab Emirates after posting a satirical YouTube video. He is the first foreign national to be charged with the country’s draconian cybercrimes decree.
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Poet Nigel Holt discusses how poetry in the Middle East is “a game of literary Russian roulette” and the disconnect between East and West literature.
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Excerpts of Ahmed Mansoor’s blog. Mansoor was arrested in the United Arab Emirates for signing a petition demanding constitutional reform. He is boycotting his own trial.
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