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“The statements that PEN produced about the progress on the case give continued visibility to the issue and continue to put the pressure on the government to take action. I think that the advocacy helps, because it is picked up by the local press. I also think that when you write asking for the charges to be dropped, it gives continued updates to many people who may otherwise erroneously think that the charges were dropped” - Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan human rights activist and academic.

2018:
Several Ethiopian journalists were released from prison 
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The Equatorial Guinean artist Ramón Esono Ebalé was freed 
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Ethiopian blogger and journalist Eskinder Nega was released from prison
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2017:
Yemeni writer Mohammad Yahya al-Jubaihi was released following the quashing of his death sentence
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