PEN America: China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey Are World’s Worst Jailers of Writers
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PEN America Concerned Over Detained Chinese Poet’s Safety
PEN America is concerned that the continuing lack of publicly available information around the detention of Chinese poet Cui Haoxin, arrested in late January, may enable Chinese authorities to… More
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There cannot be a cop in America unaware of @CNN's @OmarJimenez being cuffed and hauled away while reporting on air on Thurs night. Yet rather than the grave embarrassment that it was, others seem to treat it as an example to emulate https://twitter.com/ByRobertoR/status/1267264167314182144
Reporter from @DMregister calls out "I'm press, I'm press, I'm press" to no avail as she is pepper-sprayed in the face, put into disposable handcuffs and detained in a squad car https://twitter.com/andreamsahouri/status/1267261446402052097