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November Featured Cases: Sprawling Censorship in Russia
Anna Politkovskaya, Grigory Pasko, and Alexey Kungurov More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Monday, October 31
Turkey detains 13 journalists, Pakistan police arrest more than 100 opposition activists, and more. More
Reckoning With Torture
Reckoning With Torture is an innovative performance and film project that raises awareness of the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and recognizes… More
Iran: Journalist to Serve Up to 10 More Years in Prison
PEN is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Narges Mohammadi. More
Rolling Blackouts
Sarah Glidden’s Rolling Blackouts is ambitious comics journalism that, in the tradition of Joe Sacco’s The Fixer, attempts to unpack the embedded contradictions surrounding Americans reporting from the Middle… More
Harassment of Prominent Azerbaijani Investigative Journalist Khadija Ismayilova Continues
NEW YORK—Prominent Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova continues to face surveillance, official harassment, and a travel ban as retribution for her reports on government corruption and her advocacy on… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thursday, October 27
Journalist prevented from speaking in Qatar Indian journalist Rana Ayyub, who authored a book on the 2002 Gujarat riots, was prevented from speaking at an event organised by the Indian… More
The Meanings of Yellow
Yellow has always caused me a certain amount of discomfort, perhaps because of its relation to sickness, to fear and despair. It also evokes power and the riches of… More
Night Walk
I think of everything there is that exists / and how little we know of it all / but mostly I think / of your sex / and your… More
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