London, UK, 31 March 2011 PEN International praises the U.N. Human Rights Council for its recent unanimous vote on the right of all individuals to practice religion, which ended a thirteen-year campaign by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)...
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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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When, in January 2008, Harry Owen moved to the Eastern Cape from England he had no idea what to expect of life there. Indeed, some of his closest friends had warned him against going to live in such a ‘dangerous’...
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Luck matters. Life is chancy. Springbok legend, war hero, thriving businessman – that was J J Kitching, know to all as Kitchen Boy. His was a life as large as a sports stadium, as thrilling as bailing out of a...
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