Edit, 4 June 2018: We are happy to note that Esono Ebalé has been allowed to leave, and has left Equatorial Guinea. We express our hope that his movement is no longer restricted and his right to criticise his government...
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Dr Stella Nyanzi, prominent Ugandan academic, feminist and LGBTI+ campaigner, was arrested for speaking her mind. In April last year, she was detained by Ugandan authorities for a post on Facebook that called Yoweri Museveni – the President of Uganda...
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On 15 November 2017, PEN South Africa partnered with the University of Cape Town’s Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) to commemorate one of the most important dates on the PEN calendar: the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer. The 2017...
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PEN SA Board member Gabeba Baderoon has written to the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, calling for the release of cartoonist and activist Ramón Esono Ebalé. Ebalé is one of the five writers whose...
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PEN SA Board member Nooshin Erfani-Ghadimi has written to the Honduran National Human Rights Ombudsman, Dr. Roberto Herrera Cáceres, urging him to take up PEN Honduras Board Member Cesario Alejandro Félix Padilla Figueroa’s case and work with the Honduran authorities...
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