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11 months ago    |   Tags: russia humanrights novaya gazeta free expression russian pen   |   Notes: 5

"We believe that a mere apology in this case is clearly not enough. It does not settle the issue. The incident goes far beyond relations between top officials and a single editorial staff person. This ugly act committed by your colleague is your challenge for the whole journalistic community, and furthermore, civil society, the development of which you have repeatedly highlighted. The closure of the “hunting season” against a Novaya Gazeta journalist does not guarantee that history of this kind will not be repeated in the future. Impunity for Mr. Bastrykin serves as a signal to the regional authorities, and therefore does not have much impact on what is going on with journalists working for the local media."

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Russian PEN, on why an apology from Alexander Bastrykin, who allegedly threatened to kill journalist Sergey Sokolov, is not sufficient. The letter to President Putin calls for Bastrykin to be prosecuted. 

Click here to read the full letter.

(via penamerican)

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Source: pen-international.org

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11 months ago    |   Tags: humanrights russia russian pen sokolov novaya gazeta politics   |   Notes: 1
penamerican: Russian investigator Aleksandr I. Bastrykin apologizes for allegedly threatening to kill Sergei Sokolov, deputy editor of Novaya Gazeta. His apology included sending Sokolov a wristwatch. Three reporters from Novaya Gazeta have been killed in the past decade. Meanwhile, Sokolov had fled into exile. We will be posting Russian PEN’s response to the apology soon. (via Russia’s Chief Federal Investigator Apologizes for Threatening Journalist - NYTimes.com)

penamerican:

Russian investigator Aleksandr I. Bastrykin apologizes for allegedly threatening to kill Sergei Sokolov, deputy editor of Novaya Gazeta. His apology included sending Sokolov a wristwatch. Three reporters from Novaya Gazeta have been killed in the past decade. Meanwhile, Sokolov had fled into exile. We will be posting Russian PEN’s response to the apology soon.

(via Russia’s Chief Federal Investigator Apologizes for Threatening Journalist - NYTimes.com)

Source: The New York Times

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11 months ago    |   Tags: lit russian pen politics russia navalny free expression putin   |   Notes: 6
penamerican: Russian protestors clash with riot police in Moscow News this week that Russian authorities had arrested more protestors and that teams of investigators raided the homes of blogger Aleksei Navalny, television star Kseniya Sobchak, and other prominent opposition voices is further proof of an intensifying struggle over freedom of expression in Russia.  Navigating this treacherous terrain is the Russian PEN Center, chartered in 1988 and an important defender of the freedom to write in the post-Soviet era. Among Russian PEN’s most important campaigns were efforts to challenge the jailing of Grigory Pasko and Aleksander Nikitin. The center paid a stiff a price for its activism when then-President Putin sought to impose exorbitant land taxeson the organization’s central Moscow offices. For more than five years, the center was tied down in court with its assets frozen by the state. Click here to read more

penamerican:

Russian protestors clash with riot police in Moscow

News this week that Russian authorities had arrested more protestors and that teams of investigators raided the homes of blogger Aleksei Navalny, television star Kseniya Sobchak, and other prominent opposition voices is further proof of an intensifying struggle over freedom of expression in Russia. 

Navigating this treacherous terrain is the Russian PEN Center, chartered in 1988 and an important defender of the freedom to write in the post-Soviet era. Among Russian PEN’s most important campaigns were efforts to challenge the jailing of Grigory Pasko and Aleksander Nikitin. The center paid a stiff a price for its activism when then-President Putin sought to impose exorbitant land taxeson the organization’s central Moscow offices. For more than five years, the center was tied down in court with its assets frozen by the state.

Click here to read more

Source: pen.org