The trial of the Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is currently under way. At present, according to the blog, Arabic Literature, Tatour is under house arrest, confined to a Tel Aviv apartment without access to the internet. In 2016, on the...
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PEN South Africa sent the statement below to President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni. You can read PEN International’s statement here. SA PEN STATEMENT ON THE ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT OF DR STELLA NYANZI PEN South Africa, an affiliate of PEN International,...
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In May the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) facilitated a United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Prior to the review PEN International worked with various PEN Centres, including PEN South Africa, and other partners to make...
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The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $195,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitise the PEN International and English PEN archives and make them available. Professor Peter D....
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PEN SA Africa Pulse is a weekly round-up of news concerning cases of freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Africa. Tanzania’s president is trying to force the media to shut up, listen and be nice The...
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