Today, the 21st of February 2017 marks International Mother Tongue Day, a day set aside to promote and celebrate mother tongue languages. The day has a painful history. In 1952, students from the University of Dhaka, Jagannath College and Dhaka...
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The inauguration of the new US president, Donald Trump, which is being held today, the 20th of January 2017, has been met with unprecedented controversy. Writers in the United States and across the world are protesting and writing against a...
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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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The Day of the Imprisoned Writer is held by PEN every year on 15 November to highlight and campaign for writers that are facing charges or who have been imprisoned for expressing themselves. The five cases that PEN is focusing...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. A poet and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Dareen Tatour is currently standing trial on charges of...
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