A Worldwide Reading in support of Ashraf has been organised by the international literature festival Berlin (ilb) for today, the 14th January 2016. Ashraf is a Palestinian poet that has been sentenced to death for apostasy in Saudi Arabia. PEN...
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London, 6 January 2016 An upsurge in cases of possible enforced disappearances in China in the context of an ongoing crackdown on dissent is deeply worrying, PEN International, the global writers’ organisation said today. Since November 2015, five Chinese writers,...
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PEN South Africa will be sharing an online reading in support of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, who has been sentenced to death for apostasy in Saudi Arabia. The Worldwide Reading in support of Ashraf has been organised by the international...
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Can Dündar, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, Erdem Gül, the paper’s Ankara representative, plus some other 30 journalists are still in prison. The writers have been held since November 26. They were charged with espionage and other national security...
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PEN South Africa strongly supports the call for the release of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia. In view of the growing close trade and business relationships between South Africa and China, we draw the attention of South Africans to this...
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