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 SA President Margie Orford and PEN SA Executive Vice-President Mandla Langa: We write to you as our university campuses burn. There are running battles between students demanding a free, decolonialised education on the one hand and private...
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The International PEN Congress took place in late September. It was hosted by Galician PEN in the beautiful old city of Ourense in northern Spain. It was a pleasure to attend the first Congress chaired by Jennifer Clement, PEN International’s...
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Eritrean-Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak was arrested as part of the September 2001 crackdown on Eritrea’s independent press, which saw the country’s eight privately-owned newspapers closed down. As owner of the weekly newspaper Setit, Isaak was arrested along with other print...
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PEN South Africa is deeply saddened by the news that journalist, editor and author Allister Sparks passed away on Monday at the age of 83. Sparks has been a member of PEN South Africa since 2004 and has written a...
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