15 november - Fängslade författares dag

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Dagen är instiftad av PEN international och har firats den femtonde november varje år sedan 1981, dagen är till för att synliggöra och stödja fängslade författare samt att främja yttrandefrihet.

Sedan 15 november 2015 har åtminstone 35 författare blivit mördade på grund av sitt arbete, jag tänker fira i yttrandefrihetens tecken och med hjälp av PEN international skriva under namninsamlingar för;

Ahmed Naji (Egypt) - Namninsamling

– Novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji is currently serving a two-year prison sentence for ‘violating public modesty’ in relation to the publication of excerpts from his 2014 novel Istikhdam al-Hayat (The Use of Life) in Akhbar al-Adab magazine, also in 2014. Naji has now served almost eight months of his sentence. 

Aslı Erdoğan (Turkey) - Namninsamling

– Renowned novelist and PEN member Aslı Erdoğan was arrested at her home in Istanbul on 17 August 2016. She was sent to a prison in Istanbul on preliminary charges of “membership of a terrorist organisation” and “undermining national unity.” She has been in pre-trial detention since her arrest, and as of 15 November, no date has been set for her trial. 

Cesario Alejandro Félix Padilla Figueroa (Honduras) 

– Journalism graduate, student leader, and board member and founding member of PEN Honduras, Cesario Alejandro Félix Padilla Figueroa has faced prosecution, threats and harassment for his part in on-going student protests at the state National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa since 2014. 

Dareen Tatour (Israel)  - Namnnsamling

– A poet and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Dareen Tatour is currently standing trial on charges of “support for a terrorist organisation” and several counts of incitement to violence in connection with her poetry and social media activity. Tatour was detained over a year ago and is currently under house arrest. 

Gui Minhai (China) - Svensk medborgare - Namninsamling

– In October 2015, publisher Gui Minhai disappeared from his holiday home in Thailand. Three months later he appeared in a televised ‘confession’ on state-controlled TV claiming that he had voluntarily surrendered himself to the Chinese authorities over his supposed involvement in a fatal hit-and-run incident in December 2003. Since then, his whereabouts have been unknown; he has reportedly not had access to legal counsel and has been allowed no contact with his daughter who lives in the UK.

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/Ellen