PEN International leads organisations around the world calling for awareness of ‘intense repression’ of writers and increased government surveillance in wake of atrocityA year after the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo,and as the French satirical magazine’s latest issue draws fire from the Vatican, free speech organisations around the world maintain near together to proclaim the importance of protecting dissenting voices – and to attack those governments that maintain increased surveillance in the wake of the murders.
Twelve people were killed by gunmen in Charlie Hebdo’s Paris offices a year ago on Thursday. Marking the atrocity, and a statement led by writers’ organisation PEN International and signed by more than 70 PEN centres and freedom of expression groups underlines their “commitment to the defense of the right to freedom of expression,even when that right is being used to express views that some may consider offensive”.
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Source: theguardian.com