On 15 November 2017, PEN South Africa partnered with the University of Cape Town’s Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) to commemorate one of the most important dates on the PEN calendar: the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer. The 2017...
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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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The Day of the Imprisoned Writer is held by PEN every year on 15 November to highlight and campaign for writers that are facing charges or who have been imprisoned for expressing themselves. The five cases that PEN is focusing...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. A poet and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Dareen Tatour is currently standing trial on charges of...
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Statement from PEN International London, 5 September 2016 Poet Dareen Tatour should be released from house arrest immediately and unconditionally, and all charges against her dropped, said PEN International today. The trial of the Palestinian citizen of Israel on charges...
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