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Ashraf Fayadh. FREE AT LAST!
ALQST for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia reported last Tuesday, 23 August 2022, that the Saudi authorities have finally released Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, imprisoned now for more than eight years for the religious crime of “apostasy”
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Yemen, A Devastated Country Where Impunity Has Become Endemic
The war in Yemen has been raging for six years, and no end is in sight. Impunity is endemic and Yemen is a devastated country. This statement was published in the Global Rights Report – State of the World’s Impunity 2020
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CRACKS IN THE SKIN – Ashraf Fayadh THE POET IN PRISON
Cracks in the skin, a poem written by Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh from a Saudi Arabian jail
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Saudi Arabia: Elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Post Views: 154 “Dozens of Saudi women have told Human Rights Watch that the male guardianship system is the most significant impediment to realizing women’s rights in the country, effectively leaving adult women legal minors who cannot make key decisions
Read MoreAshraf Fayadh, poet… NOT FORGOTTEN
Ashraf Fayadh, imprisoned stateless-Palestinian poet, is this year’s joint winner (with Malini Subramaniam, an award-winning Indian investigative journalist) of Pen International’s 2017 Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards for Freedom of Expression
Read MoreAshraf Fayadh: STILL IMPRISONED
Thursday, July 28, 2016 has been named A DAY OF CREATIVITY for Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh, originally arrested in 2013 in Abha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, imprisoned in January 2014 and sentenced to death in November 2015
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Make Noise & Beauty on July 28, a Day of Creativity for Ashraf Fayadh
An open letter from poet-activist Mona Kareem and ArabLit editor M Lynx Qualey
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On World Poetry Day, Support Imprisoned Poets
March 21 is “World Poetry Day,” as declared by UNESCO
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New Theatre: ‘The Several Beheadings of Ashraf Fayadh’
If you’re in London, you have an opportunity to drop in on a reading of Hassan Abdulrazzak‘s new short play, The Several Beheadings of Ashraf Fayadh
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Ashraf Fayadh: Hell on Earth
There is much should concern us here as well as reminding us of the turbulent life of the Turkish communist poet Nazim Hikmet who spent most of his life either in prison or in exile
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