PEN South Africa expresses alarm at the arrest of Outsa Mokone, the editor of the Sunday Standard in Botswana, and its alarm is deepened by the report by the Committee to Protect journalists that Mokone’s senior reporter, Edgar Tsimane, has...
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PEN South Africa calls on all PEN chapters to join the international outrage and protest that is mounting against the sentencing by the Mbabane High Court in Swaziland of Bheki Makhubu, editor of the independent news magazine, The Nation, and...
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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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Dear friends, Dear PEN members, Those of you who were in Belgrade have had some time to report to your members. And all of you have received a fast, preliminary report from our Executive Director, Laura McVeigh – a very...
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In 1985, the crime writer Margie Orford was thrown in jail by South Africa’s apartheid police. Here she tells of the brutal experience that turned her from an idealistic student into a traumatised young woman Margie Orford The Observer, Sunday...
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