PEN South Africa and the Institute for Creative Arts are hosting an event in Cape Town to mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Find details here. On 15 November, PEN will mark the 36th Day of the Imprisoned Writer,...
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Novelist, essayist and translator Bigeldy Gabdullin, aged 61, the current President of the Kazakh PEN Club, was arrested on 15 November 2016 in connection with extortion charges. Gabdullin attracted state attention in his work as a journalist in the 1990s...
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The Day of the Imprisoned Writer is held by PEN every year on 15 November to highlight and campaign for writers that are facing charges or who have been imprisoned for expressing themselves. The five cases that PEN is focusing...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. A poet and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Dareen Tatour is currently standing trial on charges of...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. Novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji is currently serving a two-year prison sentence in Egypt for ‘violating public...
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