Pictured: Fredrik Elg presenting on the SA Cities of Refuge Project at the ICORN-Pen International summit in Amsterdam in late May 2015. By Michael Schmidt The South African Cities of Refuge Project grew out of a meeting in Johannesburg in...
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PEN South Africa has read the draft Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill (B-2015) with extreme concern. There are many features of the Bill which have the potential to harm and make inroads on freedom of expression and impose wide-ranging controls over...
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PEN South Africa strongly supports the call for the release of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia. In view of the growing close trade and business relationships between South Africa and China, we draw the attention of South Africans to this...
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The Supreme Court of Appeal have ruled in favour of #TextbooksMatter. Read our statement calling for government to prioritise access to books and textbooks for all schoolchildren and read what writers had to say about why #TextBooksMatter Press release from...
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27 November, 2015 PEN International, English PEN and PEN South Africa are seriously concerned by the arrest and pre-trial detention of Can Dϋndar and Erdem Gul who were detained following the charges announced by a court in Istanbul of spying...
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