Visitors: 40725 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International condemns the imprisonment of author Bertrand Teyou, detained since November 2010 for ‘insulting’ President Biya’s wife in a book published last year and for attempting to hold a public reading of the offending text. Teyou was jailed after he failed to pay […]
Visitors: 372Madrid, 20 March 2011 Statement by Ricardo González Alfonso, Cuban journalist, librarian and poet, sentenced to 20 years in prison in Cuba in 2003, released and exiled to Spain in July 2010. Ricardo is an Honorary Member of Finnish PEN and German PEN. My dear colleagues who are attending the 9th Writers in Prison […]
Visitors: 303Madrid, 20 March 2011 Statement by Ricardo González Alfonso, Cuban journalist, librarian and poet, sentenced to 20 years in prison in Cuba in 2003, released and exiled to Spain in July 2010. Ricardo is an Honorary Member of Finnish PEN and German PEN. My dear colleagues who are attending the 9th Writers in Prison […]
Visitors: 369Madrid, 20 March 2011 Statement by Ricardo González Alfonso, Cuban journalist, librarian and poet, sentenced to 20 years in prison in Cuba in 2003, released and exiled to Spain in July 2010. Ricardo is an Honorary Member of Finnish PEN and German PEN. My dear colleagues who are attending the 9th Writers in Prison […]
Visitors: 31318 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in March […]
Visitors: 33018 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in March […]
Visitors: 34318 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in March […]
Visitors: 30917 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention for […]
Visitors: 37117 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention for […]
Visitors: 36217 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention for […]
Visitors: 384The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the one- and- a- half year sentence handed down on 13 March 2011 to writer, journalist and activist Ali al-‘Abdullah for “harming Syria’s relations with a foreign country”. The sentence stemmed from an article published by Abdullah while in prison in 2009 in which he […]
Visitors: 322The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the one- and- a- half year sentence handed down on 13 March 2011 to writer, journalist and activist Ali al-‘Abdullah for “harming Syria’s relations with a foreign country”. The sentence stemmed from an article published by Abdullah while in prison in 2009 in which he […]
Visitors: 414The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the one- and- a- half year sentence handed down on 13 March 2011 to writer, journalist and activist Ali al-‘Abdullah for “harming Syria’s relations with a foreign country”. The sentence stemmed from an article published by Abdullah while in prison in 2009 in which he […]
Visitors: 32914 March 2011 On 10 March 2011, Ragip Zarakolu, publisher and free expression activist, was sentenced to a fine, and author Mehmet Güler to a 15-month suspended prison term. The two were convicted of spreading propaganda seen to support the banned Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), following the publication of Mehmet Güler’s book The KCK […]
Visitors: 32914 March 2011 On 10 March 2011, Ragip Zarakolu, publisher and free expression activist, was sentenced to a fine, and author Mehmet Güler to a 15-month suspended prison term. The two were convicted of spreading propaganda seen to support the banned Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), following the publication of Mehmet Güler’s book The KCK […]
Visitors: 39614 March 2011 On 10 March 2011, Ragip Zarakolu, publisher and free expression activist, was sentenced to a fine, and author Mehmet Güler to a 15-month suspended prison term. The two were convicted of spreading propaganda seen to support the banned Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), following the publication of Mehmet Güler’s book The KCK […]
Visitors: 20107-03-2011 : Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil in her message on the occasion of International Women’s Day, which is being observed tomorrow has said: – “Every year, International Women’s Day is being celebrated on 8th March, to recognize the commitment, dedication and achievements of women. Indian women […]
Visitors: 522Who are Dalits? The Outcaste (Avarnas) within the varnashram 3000 years social oppression, political exploitation, economically deprived & culturally dominated. Menial job , service provider, facilitator, etc. Untouchables, asparshiya, depressed classes, harijans, etc. Officially known as Scheduled Castes (GoI Act, 1935) Another understanding on Dalits brings all the deprived groups SC, ST, OBC and […]
Visitors: 391The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International welcomes the release of the independent journalist and librarian Iván Hernández Carrillo on 19 February 2011, after almost eight years in prison. Hernández, like Héctor Fernando Maseda Gutiérrez who was freed on 12 February, has been allowed to remain in Cuba under a special parole […]
Visitors: 414 The international Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP) are having an experts’ workshop in Colombo Sri Lanka on the 24th and 25th February to discuss pressing food security and water issues in the face of climate change. The workshop will bring together participants from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, […]
Visitors: 281 India-Pakistan relationship, already strained, due to the decades-long short-sighted governmental policies and their one-upmanship strategies, has been in a downward spiral, since the November 2008 Mumbai carnage. Instead of statesmanship, the same old defensive stance, worn-out rhetoric and mud-slinging have continued. Under these circumstances, it is highly unlikely that the situation will improve […]
Visitors: 353The 19 February 2011 sees the second-month anniversary of the mass arrests which followed demonstrations against the results of the flawed presidential election of 19 December 2010. The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International calls again for the release from detention of the journalists Dimitri Bondarenko, Aleksandr Fiaduta and Pavel Severinets, for […]
Visitors: 448 India is a common-law country, judgments by the Supreme Court of India and the various state-level high courts also form part of the law. Certain landmark decisions of the higher judiciary have had a strong impact on the state of environmental law in the country. In addition a new National Environment Policy was […]
Visitors: 356The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the five- year sentence handed down on 14 February 2011 to blogger, poet and high school student Tal Al-Mallouhi on the charge of “divulging information to a foreign state”. No evidence has been provided for the charge against her, and PEN International believes that Al-Mallouhi […]
Visitors: 496The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is pleased to note that the writer and journalist Héctor Fernando Maseda Gutiérrez was freed on 12 February 2011, after almost eight years in prison. Unlike the 18 others freed last year, who were all exiled to Spain as a precondition of their release, Maseda […]