- PEN International: We are writing to you with a request for help from your Centre to aid our colleagues writers and print journalists in Uzbekistan, Russia and Azerbaijan who are either in prison or on trial on charges of insult or defamation...»
- PEN International: Read PEN International weekly on-line 5 April 2013...»
- Uzbekistan: convicted writer Mamadali Makhmudov is presented with new charges...»
- PEN International: Read PEN International weekly on-line 29 March 2013...»
- PEN International report on China 2013. PEN International has submitted a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to comment on the state of human rights in China...»
- CHINA: BBC English-language radio broadcasts jammed in Chinabroadcasts jammed in China...»
- PEN International: Read PEN International weekly on-line 22 Feb 2013...»
- International Mother Language Day. 21 February marks International Mother Language Day (IMLD). This is the annual day where the UN and organisations working on linguistic diversity and linguistic rights mark the importance of linguistic diversity, mother tongue education and protecting endangered languages...»
- CHINA: International Campaign Continues for Poet and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo...»
- SOMALIA: Journalist detained arbitrarily and charged for reporting on rape...»
- 2013 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX: Asia-Pacific 2013 index - Only three Asian countries are in the top 25 percent...»
- PEN International: Read PEN International weekly on-line 25 Dec 2012...»
- PEN International condemns investigation against PEN Turkey for criticising...»
- SAUDI ARABIA: Prominent writer and editor arrested, fears for their safety...»
- CHINA: Renewed demands for information about the welfare of leading Uighur writer Nurmuhemmet Yasin...»
- A Question to the New Year by Aziz Isa, poem for the new year...»
- Uyghur American Association Urges China to Immediately Release Information on Nurmemet Yasin’s Condition...»
- CHINA Uighur writer’s death in prison would be bitter blow. The reported death of a celebrated Uighur writer... »
- CHINA Reprisal New York Times reporter has to leave mainland China...»
- REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: News Providers Decimated in 2012. Annual Overview News providers decimated...»
- PEN International: Read PEN International weekly on-line 21 Dec 2012...»
Amnesty International Urgent Action: An Uighur man, Abdukiram Abduveli, suffering from bone and joint cancer, is being denied urgent medical treatment in prison in China. Religious leader in the Uighur community in China, Abdukiram Abduveli, was charged with crimes of inciting counter-revolutionary propaganda on 1 July 1991. On 5 May 1993 he was given a 12-year sentence including four years’ suspension of permission to exercise his political rights. No details of the evidence were given in the court verdict and he was denied a lawyer. During this time Abdukiram Abduveli was subjected to solitary confinement and his right to freedom of religion including praying, was restricted... Read more »
