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Dean Worth
dworth at ucla.edu
Mon Aug 2 04:46:23 UTC 1999
Dear Colleague,
I can't help you with information, but I would like to stay on your
mailing list. Dean Worth (Professor, UCLA)
At 01:12 PM 8/2/99 +1000, you wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I am a member of the Canberra branch of the International
>PEN. The International PEN is an organisation of writers and journalists.
>Its aim is to highlight cases where writers and journalists are persecuted
>for expressing their ideas. Every year in Canberra we plant a tree in the
>memory of writers who have died in prisons or killed for exercising their
>right to freedom of speech. In Canberra there is a memorial walkway that has
>trees to commemorate Ken Saro Wiva, the Nigerian writer and dramatist,
>Robert Walker, an Aboriginal Australian writer who died in a Perth prison,
>Four Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor. This year we are
>planning to plant a tree in the memory of
>* The Russian editor of a newspaper of who was killed in her office
>for exposing corruption in the government of a chess-loving President of a
>Republic in Russia; and
>* Galina Staravoitova, who was murdered in St. Petersburg
>
> I shall be grateful if you could send me any information
>about the two women journalists. I am sorry that I don't even know the name
>of the first journalist. I shall be grateful if you can send me some
>references to their journalistic writing.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>Subhash Jaireth
>
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