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Oleg Sentsov has been on a hunger strike since May 14; PEN urges Russian authorities to release Sentsov immediately.
PEN International strongly condemns the use of excessive force against protestors and journalists by the Israeli forces earlier this week.
At last year’s Cairo Literature festival, Canadian writer, Kim Echlin met Syrian poet and activist, Rasha Omran who now lives in exile in Egypt. Omran has publically opposed the Assad regime since the 2011 revolution. Her poetry is her ongoing resistance to the silencing and erasure of Syria. The country’s pre-war population was 22 million […]
PEN joins its Latin American colleagues in condemning the killing of three employees at the Ecuadorian daily newspaper El Comercio.
Leading writers from Europe and around the world have written to the European Commission today, on the six-month anniversary of the brutal assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
The Humber School for Writers is seeking applications from PEN Canada’s writers-in-exile for its Creative Writing by Correspondence Program in the September 2018 term.
More than 100 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. This piece profiles Verónica Villalvazo, who investigates femicide in this climate of fear.
PEN calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Kazakh poet, journalist, and dissident Aron Atabek.
Nominations for the 2018 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow prize, awarded each year to an individual or group who has advanced free expression in Canada, are now open.
Earlier this month, PEN Canada released a statement expressing concern over “calls to remove” a website called UBC Accountable. Our statement left out two key pieces of information.
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