Denise DRESSER GUERRA
In 2024, political scientist, journalist and author Denise Dresser Guerra challenged ongoing harassment and threats posted on Dresser's personal social media that had begun in April 2023 in connection…
Marvin DEL CID & Sonny FIGUEROA
Guatemalan journalists Marvin Del Cid and Sonny Figueroa faced continuing harassment in 2024. On 18 September 2024, Sonny Figueroa posted on social media that public officials had exposed personal…
N. Venugopal RAO
Poet, journalist, translator and writer N. Venugopal Rao’s home was raided by the NIA on 8 February 2024 as part of a series of searches of different locations…
Aakar PATEL
A writer, journalist and political activist, Aakar Patel remained subject to bail conditions restricting his freedom of movement at the end of the year…
Vladimir ARSENIJEVIĆ & other staff of KROKODIL
On 20 September 2024 at around 4pm, a group of Russian-speaking men wearing clothes with far-right Serbian imagery, entered the premises of the KROKODIL Centre for Contemporary Literature in Belgrade, took down a Ukrainian flag and intimidated staff. KROKODIL, which notably set up the first Ukrainian library in Serbia…
Andrej NIKOLAIDIS
In March 2024, an effigy of prominent writer, journalist and PEN member Andrej Nikolaidis, was burnt at a carnival in Herceg Novi, southwestern Montenegro. The incident was the latest in a series of harassment and smears against Nikolaidis, on account of his views critical of the Montenegrin authorities (see Case List 2022)…
Dumitru CRUDU, Emilian GALAICU-PĂUN & Maria IVANOV
On 16 September 2024, Moldavan writers and PEN Romania members Dumitru Crudu, Emilian Galaicu-Păun and Maria Ivanov, as well as journalist Elvira Moroșan, were detained at the border of Bender/Tighina by agents with the Ministry of State Security (MGB)…
