It is with a sense of shock and outrage that the board of PEN SA decries the bombing of the Al-Jawhara tower and the Al-Shorouk office buildings in Gaza City by Israeli forces on May 11th and May 12 2021....
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In this video, PEN South Africa marks the Day of the Imprisoned Writer with messages of support from JM Coetzee, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Albie Sachs, Zukiswa Wanner and Bongani Kona for Paola Ugaz, Chimengül Awut, Osman Kavala, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija and Sedigeh...
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PEN International has released its 2018 Case List, which details the global threats to freedom of expression documented over the last calendar year, including attacks, harassment, imprisonment and murders of writers and journalists. In his introduction to the 2018 Case...
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I believe there is no greater and more abject violation against a people than the act of putting them behind bars; prison is a manifestation of the failure of reason on the part of the powerful, an inarticulate dread to...
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Writers converse in solitude with their words. By the nature of their work, they are amongst the loneliest people on earth. But writers in prison suffer a particularly acute and perverse castigation in their loneliness. They are punished precisely for...
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