Index on Censorship » PEN http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » PEN http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org China bars writer from attending literary festival http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/china-bars-writer-from-attending-literary-festival/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/china-bars-writer-from-attending-literary-festival/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:44:17 +0000 Intern http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=22479 The Chinese government has refused author Liao Yiwu an exit visa to attend the PEN World Voices Festival in New York. Authors at the event, led by Salman Rushdie, issued a protest on Friday (22 April) and called on the Chinese authority to overturn their ban. Liao is best known for his poem Massacre about [...]

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]]> Chinese government has refused author Liao Yiwu an exit visa to attend the PEN World Voices Festival in New York. Authors at the event, led by Salman Rushdie, issued a protest on Friday (22 April) and called on the Chinese authority to overturn their ban. Liao is best known for his poem Massacre about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown for which he spent four years in jail. The festival has vowed to set up an empty chair to represent Liao.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/china-bars-writer-from-attending-literary-festival/feed/ 0 Writer Zhang Jianhong released on medical parole http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/06/writer-zhang-jianhong-released-on-medical-parole/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/06/writer-zhang-jianhong-released-on-medical-parole/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:34:34 +0000 Intern http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=13016 Zhang Jianhong, prominent writer and member of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, was released on medical parole on 5 June.  Zhang was sentenced to six years in prison in March 2007  for writing articles critical of the government. He had been diagnosed with a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system and his condition [...]

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]]> released on medical parole on 5 June.  Zhang was sentenced to six years in prison in March 2007  for writing articles critical of the government. He had been diagnosed with a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system and his condition rapidly deteriorated in prison.  Repeated requests for medical parole had previously been denied.

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