To commemorate World Press Freedom Day, marking the anniversary of the 1991 Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of principles calling for a free, independent and pluralistic media throughout the world, WAN-IFRA (The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers), is to make available, as from tomorrow, a range of materials to stimulate debate, including work by Geoffrey Robertson QC, a leading human rights lawyer and a Consulting Editor for Interlitq

To commemorate World Press Freedom Day (Biz Community.com 02.04.12), marking the anniversary of the 1991 Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of principles calling for a free, independent and pluralistic media throughout the world, WAN-IFRA (The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers), is to make available, as from tomorrow, a range of materials to stimulate debate, including work by Geoffrey Robertson QC, a leading human rights lawyer and a Consulting Editor for Interlitq.

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« Interviewed in Washington DC by Azar Nafisi, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, Marjane Satrapi, the graphic novelist and writer, discussed (Karolina Ramos, The GW Hatchet), her two-volume “Persepolis” series, chronicling her tumultuous youth in Iran amidst the Iranian Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war, and adding, “When they tell me I’m rebellious, I just don’t understand….What I say, everyone who lives in Iran already knows”

In Shanghaiist, 22.04.12, Jonathan Mirsky of The New York Review of Books reflects on the recent London Book Fair, beset by criticism of the decision by the British Council to allow China’s General Administration of Press and Publications, the government body that regulates and censors print media, to have full say over which writers to invite to the fair. and goes on to invoke Gao Xingjian, a contributor to Issue 4 of Interlitq: “At the information desk, staffed by young Chinese women studying in the UK, I asked whether Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Laureate, would be speaking. None had heard of him. I said he lived just over the Channel in Paris. One of the young women said: ‘Then he’s not a Chinese, right?’ I said he was indeed, had lived most of his life there, and had resigned from the Party. They looked embarrassed” »