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Tom Stoppard, M. NourbeSe Philip, Tanya Barfield, Rigoberto González to Receive PEN America Honorary and Career-Achievement Literary Awards
“Fostering and celebrating international literature is central to the mission of the PEN America Literary Awards; we seek to champion original and promising writers of the global community and… More
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Gui Minhai was a bookseller in #HongKong How would he even have had access to govt intelligence justifying a 10 year sentence for illegally sharing it? #guiminhai https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/02/25/bookseller-gui-minhai-jailed-10-years-china-illegally-providing-intelligence-overseas-parties/
A prominent Tanzanian journalist arrested in July was released on Monday after pleading guilty to financial crimes in a case that critics had said was politically motivated. Rights groups saw the case as part of a pattern of tighter control on the media.
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President Daniel Ortega barred La Prensa (@laprensa), the oldest newspaper in Nicaragua, from accessing newsprint and ink after they covered anti-government protests that erupted in 2018 and were brutally repressed by police. https://lat.ms/2ST0tXq
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