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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A year ago today, on International Human Rights Day, our colleague Liu Xiaobo, former president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. One year on, he and over thirty other writers remain in prison...
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by Margie Orford – Female of the Species. Cape Times, April 12 2011 The Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern in London echoes with the feet of the countless tourists who shuffle through, numbed by choice, bad coffee and the...
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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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