NATASHA SCHMIDT Editorial

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TOM STOPPARD Letter from the outside

A line to the writers in prison

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CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES Power of the pen 17 Fifty years of defending writers

MORIS FARHI Eyewitness

On Faraj Sarkoohi

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MAUREEN FREELY Two for the road

Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller in Turkey

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ANNE SEBBA Survival in prison

Bearing witness

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MOHAMED NASHEED Liberating language

A new language of freedom

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MICHAEL SCAMMELL Dialogue with darkness 52 Arthur Koestler and prison

MARGARET ATWOOD Don’t tell us what to write 58 The freedom to write

MARTIN ROWSON Stripsearch

LISA APPIGNANESI Words without borders

The importance of looking closer to home

LYDIA CACHO Reluctant Heroes

Writing in the limelight

NGUGI WA THIONG’O A licence to write

From classroom to clampdown

RON DEIBERT Blogging dangerously

Bloggers under threat

WILLIAM BOYD Eyewitness

On Ken Saro-Wiwa

LEWIS MEDJO The price of truth

Life in a Cameroonian jail

ANIA CORLESS Eyewitness

On Uzbekistan

SALIL TRIPATHI Lone star

The battle to protect universal rights

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