PEN South Africa is gravely concerned by the abduction and detention on December 6th 2017 of Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian-American writer, poet, and professor. Nganang, a Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative literature at Stony Brook University in New York...
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Novelist, essayist and translator Bigeldy Gabdullin, aged 61, the current President of the Kazakh PEN Club, was arrested on 15 November 2016 in connection with extortion charges. Gabdullin attracted state attention in his work as a journalist in the 1990s...
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In September 2016, an appeals court upheld the prison sentence handed down to Iranian journalist Narges Mohammadi by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran in May this year. Mohammadi had been sentenced to five years in prison for ‘gathering and colluding...
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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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Join over 300 renowned writer, poets, translators, editors, artists, public intellectuals and cultural workers in calling for the release of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour by adding your name to the Jewish Voice for Peace petition. Tatour was arrested by the...
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