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Alaa Abd El-Fattah | Egypt | Occupation: Writer, blogger, software developer | Situation: Imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah remains arbitrarily imprisoned after serving an unjust five-year prison …
Thursday November 21 at 7 p.m. Zoom link to event torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 Hundreds of local newspapers have been shut down; investigative units that flourished have been eliminated in all but a …
November 24, 2024 | 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Hirut Jazz Cafe, 2050 Danforth Avenue, Toronto Free admission | open to the public Step into an afternoon of inspiration and …
Wednesday, October 30 at 7 p.m. Zoom link to event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 Is human rights law an appropriate and effective way to deal with extreme expressions that constitute hate speech, as …
In free and democratic societies like Canada’s, politicians do not critique the arms-length funding decisions of arts agencies, nor the productions that result from them. Why? Because political interventions send …
Shree Paradkar, an award-winning journalist and equity advocate, has won the 2024 Ken Filkow Prize. The prize recognizes Paradkar for advancing freedom of expression in Canada. Paradkar is a race …
As a nonpartisan organization of writers committed to the defence of freedom of expression, PEN Canada is deeply concerned about Israel’s recent raid and closure of Al Jazeera’s offices in …
Robina Aryubwal, a women’s rights activist, and Journalists for Human Rights have jointly won PEN Canada’s 2024 Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize. The prize recognizes a Canadian individual or organization that has …
Jimmy Lai, a journalist, writer, media publisher, and pro-democracy activist, has won PEN Canada’s One Humanity Award. Lai, who has been in solitary confinement since December 2020, is currently facing …
Tala Motazedi, a screenwriter and playwright originally from Iran, is the recipient of the 2024 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers in Exile Scholarship. During her year at Humber, she will work …