Visitors: 235 March 31, 2011 (Beirut) – The Saudi government’s refusal to let women vote in municipal elections in September 2011 unlawfully deprives women of their rights to full and equal status under the law, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the election committee to allow women to vote and to […]
Visitors: 266 March 31, 2011 (Beirut) – The Saudi government’s refusal to let women vote in municipal elections in September 2011 unlawfully deprives women of their rights to full and equal status under the law, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the election committee to allow women to vote and to […]
Visitors: 249 March 31, 2011 (Beirut) – The Saudi government’s refusal to let women vote in municipal elections in September 2011 unlawfully deprives women of their rights to full and equal status under the law, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the election committee to allow women to vote and to […]
Visitors: 320 29 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee PEN of International (WiPC) is deeply concerned by the disappearance of newspaper journalist Noel López Olguín, who was last seen in Jáltipan, Veracruz state, on 8 March 2011. It is feared that he has been abducted by an armed group with links to drugs trafficking, […]
Visitors: 283 29 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee PEN of International (WiPC) is deeply concerned by the disappearance of newspaper journalist Noel López Olguín, who was last seen in Jáltipan, Veracruz state, on 8 March 2011. It is feared that he has been abducted by an armed group with links to drugs trafficking, […]
Visitors: 300 29 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee PEN of International (WiPC) is deeply concerned by the disappearance of newspaper journalist Noel López Olguín, who was last seen in Jáltipan, Veracruz state, on 8 March 2011. It is feared that he has been abducted by an armed group with links to drugs trafficking, […]
Visitors: 322 25 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 […]
Visitors: 312 25 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 […]
Visitors: 341 25 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 […]
Visitors: 306 Madrid, 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 […]
Visitors: 245 Madrid, 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 […]
Visitors: 288 Madrid, 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 […]
Visitors: 268 18 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 […]
Visitors: 261 18 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 […]
Visitors: 273 18 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 […]
Visitors: 281 17 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 […]
Visitors: 249 17 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 […]
Visitors: 291 17 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 […]
Visitors: 294 The 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 […]
Visitors: 259 The 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 […]
Visitors: 300 The 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 […]
Visitors: 252 14 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 […]
Visitors: 260 14 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 […]
Visitors: 313 14 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 […]
Visitors: 161 07-03-2011 : 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 […]