Tuesday, July 26, 2011

News at Eleven: Spiegel: Has violence against writers

increased in recent months?

[Ali] Al Jalawi: There were always three big taboos which were not to be written about: sex, religion and politics. If you wrote about them you would go straight to prison. In recent years the situation improved a bit but now it is as bad as it has ever been. I know two writers who died after spending two days in prison.

from Spiegel: Violence Against Writers in Bahrain 'as Bad as Ever'

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