7 January 2016 On the anniversary of the brutal attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo we, the undersigned, reaffirm our commitment to the defence of the right to freedom of expression, even when that right is being used to...
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Congolese author Alain Mabanckou, who splits his time between France, Congo and the US, spoke at the 2015 Open Book Festival last week. We caught up with him for a quick interview after his talk on his Man Booker-longlisted book...
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1 May 2015 Not in our name: World Press Freedom Day 116 days after Charlie Hebdo On World Press Freedom Day, 116 days after the attack at the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 11 dead and...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, Last week in Paris I went to the site of the Charlie Hebdo murders with Emmanuel Pierrat of French PEN, Jarkko Tontti, Carles Torner and Sarah Clarke from our Secretariat. We placed flowers and a...
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SA PEN, English PEN, PEN International, French PEN, PEN Lebanon, PEN Turkey and PEN American Center condemn the unprecedented attack on the office of the French publication Charlie Hebdo in Paris yesterday (08/01/2014) in which 12 people died and seven...
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