RAPID ACTION NETWORK
 
28 January 2010
 
RAN 53/09 – Update #2

AZERBAIJAN: Two journalists released

Rapid Action Network

2 February 2010

RAN 6/10 – Update #1
 
 
CHINA: Writer and Independent Chinese PEN Officer Zhao Shiying released

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.

RAPID ACTION NETWORK

16 July 2009

RAN 28/09

RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: Human Rights Defender, Natalia Estemirova, Murdered

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.