Can Dündar, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, Erdem Gül, the paper’s Ankara representative, plus some other 30 journalists are still in prison. The writers have been held since November 26. They were charged with espionage and other national security...
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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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Dear Delegates, Dear Colleagues, I won’t keep you long, because what I have to say to you is short. I would simply like to offer you my infinite gratitude for what you did for me, while I was in prison...
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Ken Saro-Wiwa was born in October 1941 in Bori, Nigeria. After graduating from the University of Ibadan he worked briefly as a teacher before his best known novel, Sozaboy: A Novel In Rotten English, an anti-war satire, was published in...
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14 September 2015 Update #1 to RAN 02/15 PEN International is deeply concerned by the seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed out to Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on 1 September 2015. Ismayilova was convicted of “economic crimes, including illegal entrepreneurship and...
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