PEN International and Reporters Without Borders condemn the actions of the Honduran Supreme Court in failing to implement a legally-biding order by inter-American Commission on Human Rights to protect journalist, Julio Ernesto Alvarado’s right to work in his profession. The...
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08 September 2015 The arrest of Dutch journalist, Frederike Geerdink, is yet another example of the worsening condition for freedom of expression in Turkey, PEN International, PEN Turkey and PEN Netherlands said today. PEN is calling on the Turkish authorities...
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07 September 2015, London Writers including Hanif Kureishi, Elif Shafak, and Ali Smith have joined PEN International and English PEN in a letter to President Erdoğan calling for the immediate release of VICE News journalist Mohammed Ismael Rasool. The letter,...
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Dear President Erdoğan As writers, journalists and members of PEN, we are writing to express our extreme concern about the current crackdown on freedom of expression in Turkey. Last week, VICE News’s team was detained in Turkey while reporting in...
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02 September 2014 PEN International and English PEN are delighted that all charges against PEN Pinter Prize winner Mazen Darwish have now been dropped. PEN warmly congratulates Syrian activist, journalist and winner of the 2014 PEN Pinter Prize for international...
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