PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
Rashad Ramazanov and other Azeri dissidents are joining Mehman Huseynov in a hunger strike.
President Enrique Peña Nieto’s six years in office have been the most violent on record for Mexico’s journalists.
For PEN’s 2018 Day of the Imprisoned Writer, Michael Redhill writes a letter to the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.
For PEN’s 2018 Day of the Imprisoned Writer, Toronto writer Rui Umezawa writes to the imprisoned Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak.
The Turkish authorities should drop all charges against publisher and human rights activist Ragıp Zarakolu, PEN International said today.
PEN International welcomes the news that Ethiopian journalists Eskinder Nega, Woubshet Taye, and blogger Zelalem Workagegnehu.
Blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah could be subjected to a new prison sentence under the charge of “insulting the judiciary”.
PEN Canada Honorary Member, Rashad Ramazanov, will celebrate his birthday behind bars again this year. Write him a birthday note!
Every December, members of the PEN community come together to write messages of solidarity, support and hope to their fellow writers imprisoned or persecuted for exercising their right to free expression.
PEN International condemns the ongoing arbitrary detention of blogger Raif Badawi, currently serving a 10-year sentence in Saudi Arabia.
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