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TOMORROW: Join @HarrimanInst for “Burning Books: Akram Aylisli, Literature, and Human Rights in Today’s Azerbaijan” at 12PM EST as Prof. Mark Lipovetsky will moderate a conversation about Aylisli’s novel “Farewell Aylis.” Learn more & register here: https://bit.ly/2L6WFk0

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Jailed Vietnamese democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc has launched a new hunger strike, his second in the last two months, demanding that his 16-year sentence for subversion be reduced in line with a law enacted after he was sentenced. https://bit.ly/3g2zqTE

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Jimmy Lai, the founder of Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy newspaper, was denied bail on fraud charges on Thursday and ordered jailed until April by a court. https://nyti.ms/2JMGdo8

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