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Tag: journalism

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Turkey/Syria: Attacks on journalists must stop

29 October 201929 October 2019 - by Rachel Crome - Leave a Comment

English PEN condemns attacks against journalists and the ongoing media crackdown following Turkey’s offensive in Northern Syria, and calls on all parties to protect journalists from harm and to uphold …

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Lord Lesters Defamation Bill event
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Investigative journalists and the English libel law

31 May 201827 June 2018 - by Robert Sharp - 1 Comment

On 6 May 2018, English PEN received a letter from Matthew, Andrew and Paul Caurana Galizia, the sons of murdered investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, expressing concern about our work …

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Translation

PEN Atlas: exclusive extract from new book by Svetlana Alexievich

26 May 20162 June 2016 - by Rebekah Murrell - Leave a Comment

An exclusive extract from Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich.

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Free speech groups welcome win for Miranda on press freedom

19 January 201627 March 2017 - by Robert Sharp - Leave a Comment

In a landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal ruled today that Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 was incompatible with the right to press freedom guaranteed by Article 10 …

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Jo Glanville on the campaign to release Maziar Bahari

10 April 201520 April 2015 - by Robert Sharp - Leave a Comment

Ahead of a special pre-release screening of ‘Rosewater’, English PEN director Jo Glanville writes for IranWire on the detention of Maziar Bahari in 2009

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