Freedom to Write Index 2020 1

For the purposes of the Index and the status designa- In this report, PEN America will provide an in-depth tions used to classify cases, imprisonment is considered analysis of the countries that detain and imprison to be when an individual is serving a sentence following the largest numbers of writers and intellectuals and a conviction, while detention accounts for individuals explore the impact o. [...] AP Photo/Vincent Yu in 2020 on national security charges in relation to devastating and chilling effect that the passage of their music.95 The third addition to the 2020 Index Hong Kong’s repressive National Security Law in June from the previous year, poet and essayist Gendun has had on freedom of expression in the city.97 With “Lhamko” Lhundrub, was detained in December.96 As the swift implement. [...] Al- Raif Badawi, a blogger and creator of the Free Saudi though there were widespread detentions of groups Liberals website, was detained in 2012 and sentenced of women’s rights activists and advocates in 2018 and to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes, and a fine of 1 mil- Members of the Austrian Greens attend a protest in 2015 against the detainment of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi in front of the KAIC. [...] Although the environment for free expression in WRITERS AND Myanmar remained restrictive in 2020, the number of jailed writers and creative artists declined from 10 INTELLECTUALS TAKE in 2019 to 8 in 2020, the result of the freeing in May 2019 of Reuters reporters and writer/poets Wa Lone THE LEAD IN PUBLIC and Kyaw Soe Oo in a presidential amnesty. [...] breadth and scope of this year in protest: In India, The impact of the coup—including the detention of farmers started nationwide protest actions in Au- prominent writers, poets, and cultural luminaries, the gust 2020 against new agriculture deregulation.167 targeting of other writers and artists, and the broad In Nigeria, youth-led protests to disband the Spe- 163 European Union Parliament, “Huma.