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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Free Expression |
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SILENCING THE NET The Threat to Freedom of Expression On-line  Governments around the world, claiming they want to protect children, thwart terrorists and silence racists and hate mongers, are rushing to eradicate freedom of expression on the Internet. It is particularly crucial now, in the early stages of vast technological change, that governments reaffirm their commitment to respect the rights of citizens to communicate freely, but restrictions on Internet access and content are increasing worldwide, under all forms of government. (G802) 5/96, 24 pp., $3.00/£1.95 Order Online |
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BANNED, CENSORED, HARASSED AND JAILED WRITERS RECEIVE GRANTS 49 Writers from 24 Countries Recognized by Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammett Funds The 1995 recipients of grants from the estates of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett include Fatos Lubonja, an Albanian writer imprisoned for 17 years after the government found his writings were "decadent"; Father Ricardo Rezende, a Brazilian parish priest and author whose work with landless rural workers has put his name on a "death list"; and Aysenur Zarakolu of Turkey, in prison for "advocating separatism" because she published a book that discussed the Kurdish problems. Short biographies of all the recipients are included. (F701) 5/95, 8 pp., $3.00/£1.95 Order Online |
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PERSECUTED, BANNED, CENSORED AND JAILED WRITERS RECEIVE GRANTS 30 Writers from 17 Countries Recognized by Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammett Funds The 1994 recipients include Nguyn Chi Thin, a dissident Vietnamese poet who has spent the majority of his life in prison for writing poems critical of the Communist regime; the Iranian novelist Shahrunush Parsipur, whose books about the challenges women face in Iran have been banned since 1989; and the courageous editors of two Kenyan news magazines (since closed) who have been harassed for criticizing the president and writing stories about government corruption. (F602) 5/94, 4 pp., $1.00 Order Online |
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THREATS TO PRESS FREEDOMS A Report Prepared for the Free Media Seminar Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Developments throughout Europe suggest that protection for media freedoms falls well short of international standards and there are disturbing signs of erosion for universal free expression protections on the part of international and continental bodies that should be insisting on bedrock protections for freedom of the press. This report recounts a number of disturbing developments, including crude attempts to control the press in the new democracies of Eastern Europe; the shutting of newspapers in the former republics of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; impunity for the killers of journalists in Turkey; and serious constraints on freedom of expression in Great Britain, where the press is chilled by onerous libel and official secrets laws, and Greece, where numerous anti-nationalist activists have been prosecuted for publishing leaflets and posters. (D521) 11/93, 41 pp., $5.00/£2.95 Order Online |
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PERSECUTED WRITERS RECEIVE GRANTS 36 Writers from 15 Countries Recognized by Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammett Funds In 1989, the Fund for Free Expression of Human Rights Watch was asked by the trustees of the estates of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett to implement a program respecting the writers’ wishes that their legacies assist other writers around the world who have been victims of political persecution. The 1993 recipients include a Peruvian novelist, a Chinese journalist and five writers from three Central Asian republics that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. (F501) 6/93, 4 pp., $1.00 Order Online 
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