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Free Press and Human Rights

Ulysses was banned in America for a short time and so it is fitting that we cast a light on continuing repression of literary expression and honest journalism throughout the world.

We have petitioned in the past on behalf of writers such as Vaclav Havel, Xu Wenli, Aung San Suu Ky, Daniel Pearl, Anna Politkovskaya, and Rael Badwawi, who is still at this writing in a Saudi Arabian prison sentenced to 10 years for merely writing words of dissent.

We have petitioned in the past on behalf of writers as Vaclav Havel, Xu Wenli, Aung San Suu Ky, Daniel Pearl, Anna Politkovskaya, and Rael Badwawi, who is still at this writing in a Saudi Arabian prison sentenced to 10 years for merely writing words of dissent.

 

Five booksellers disappeared from their homes in Hong Kong only to be revealed in China as “guests of the People’s Republic of China” for the simple act of publishing books critical of the political leadership. Two have been released as of this writing and international pressure continues for the remaining book sellers’ immediate release from detention that is in clear violation of the Hong Kong “one country, two systems” agreement.

 

Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has charged more than 1800 authors, cartoonists, politicians and ordinary citizens with the crime of “insulting the president” and over a thousand academics were targeted and some detained for speaking out against similar repression and government abuse of antiterrorism laws. Turkey in fact is now ranked 149thout of 180 nations for the protection of press freedoms.


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