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PEN Austrias Writers-In-Prison Committee voices its deep concern for Alaa Abd el Fattah, Honorary Member of PEN Austria
Ägypten

PEN Austria’s Writers-In-Prison Committee voices its deep concern for Alaa Abd el Fattah, Honorary Member of PEN Austria. The Egyptian blogger is imprisoned since 2013 serving a five years sentence for participating in a so called “unauthorized demonstration”. Alaa Abd El Fattah was one of the very first bloggers in Arabic and the first to aggregate blogs coming out of Egypt. He has always worked for freedom of expression whether in his writing or

Rapid Action Network: Turkey: Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel must be released immediately
Rapid Action Network

PEN International expresses grave concern at the arrest and detention of Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel, who was charged on 27 February 2017 with incitement to hatred and making propaganda in support of a terrorist organization. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. PEN International fears that Deniz Yücel is being punished for his articles on corruption as well as the ongoing conflict in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast