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RSSFreedom To Write: New RAN Procedure
It’s with great pleasure that we're able to announce a policy change for PEN’s Freedom to Write program, one that we think will enhance the efficiency and reach of our important international and domestic campaigns.
RAN 40/10 Update
RAPID ACTION NETWORK
August 19, 2010
RAN 40/10 Update
CUBA: Twelfth writer released into exile
RAN 53/09 – Update #2
RAPID ACTION NETWORK
28 January 2010
RAN 53/09 – Update #2
AZERBAIJAN: Two journalists released
RAN 6/10 - Update - China
Rapid Action Network
2 February 2010
RAN 6/10 – Update #1
CHINA: Writer and Independent Chinese PEN Officer Zhao Shiying released
WiPC 2009 Caselist
International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC)
The International PEN WiPC half year caselist – January to June 2009 – records 644 cases in this period of imprisonment, attack and even killings of writers, journalists, and publishers in 98 countries. It includes details of 22 deaths directly attributable to the individual’s work, or whose deaths are suspicious. There are also over 200 writers and journalists serving long sentences in contravention of their rights to freedom of expression and association.
RAN 28/09
RAPID ACTION NETWORK
16 July 2009
RAN 28/09
RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: Human Rights Defender, Natalia Estemirova, Murdered
CHINA UPDATE: Online Petition
20 July 2009
Campaign for jailed Uyghur blogger
SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is relaying the petition launched by Chinese writers and intellectuals calling for the release of prominent economist Ilham Tohti, founder of the blog Uyghur Online (http://www.uighurbiz.cn), who was arrested following rioting on 5 July 2009 in Urumqi, capital of the autonomous region of Xinjiang.
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