PEN South Africa’s Writers in Prison Committee and Poetry International South Africa are joining arms with more than 70 organisations around the world next week to protest the ongoing detention of Chinese poet and Nobel Laureate, Liu Xiaobo. On 20...
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A letter received by SA PEN from member Ronnie Kasrils Dear Fellow SA PEN members As a former government minister and as a writer I strongly deplore the reported police harassment and arrest of journalists in our country. We struggled...
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PEN International, the only worldwide writers association, was established in 1921 with freedom of expression as one of the founding principles of the organization. Today there are over 140 PEN centres in more than 100 countries across the world. South...
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RAPID ACTION NETWORK 26 October 2010 Update # 2 to RAN 44/10 Kyrgyzstan: Detained Uzbek Journalist Suffers Stroke The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned at the news that the Kyrgyzstan-based Uzbek journalist, Ulugbek Abdusalamov,...
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RAPID ACTION NETWORK 21 October 2010 Update #1 to RAN 42/10 PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) welcomes the release on 19 January 2011 of Fahem Boukaddous, correspondent for Al-Badil news website and TV journalist, after more than seven...
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