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Day of the Imprisoned Writer: Go Sherab Gyatso Occupation: writer, educator and public intellectual Situation: imprisoned in China BACKGROUND A prominent Tibetan writer, educator and public intellectual, Go Sherab Gyatso, …
Day of the Imprisoned Writer: María Cristina Garrido Rodríguez Occupation: poet and activist Situation: imprisoned in Cuba BACKGROUND On March 10, 2022, Cuban poet and activist María Cristina Garrido Rodríguez …
PEN Canada calls on the Canadian government to insist that combatants in the Hamas-Israel war protect and respect the right of journalists reporting from Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, …
As every year, on November 15, the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN calls for urgent international action to protect writers and journalists across the globe, who increasingly find themselves …
FREE EVENT from the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) Thursday, December 7, 4 p.m. EST Zoom link: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 Artificial intelligence raises a host of legal and human rights issues that …
Peter Showler, photo credit The Hill Times. PEN Canada mourns the death of Peter Showler O.C., former board member and Chair of the Writers in Peril Committee. b. 17 February, …
FREE EVENT from the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) Thursday, November 9, 2023, 4 p.m. EDT Zoom link: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 As schools face demands to remove books from their libraries and …
Over two weeks have passed since the massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas, and its kidnapping of over 200 men, women and children, actions that shocked the world. Since then, …
TORONTO, October 24, 2023 – Dilan Qadir, a Kurdish Canadian writer, is the recipient of the 2023 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers in Exile Scholarship, which is awarded annually to one …
Please join Cormorant Books in celebrating the official launch of the new anthology The Uncaged Voice: Stories by Writers in Exile. Masks are strongly encouraged at this event. This event …