Send a holiday greeting to an imprisoned writer
Every year in December, members of the PEN community come together to write messages of solidarity, support and hope to their fellow writers imprisoned or killed for practicing their right …
Tag: Alaa Abd El-Fattah
Free Them All: Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2024
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 targeted for …
Alaa Abd El-Fattah: 27 NGOs send letter to United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
November 12, 2024: Dear Dr. Gillett, Dr. Yudkivska, Ms. Gopalan, Dr. Estrada-Castillo, and Dr. Malila, We are writing, as a coalition of human rights organisations, regarding the urgent submission made …
Take action for Alaa Abd El-Fattah | Day of the Imprisoned Writer
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 …
Alaa Abd el-Fattah – follow-up letter to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Originally published by English PEN | Photo of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, courtesy of freealaa.net. Photo by Mosaab El-Shamy. April 17, 2024 Dear Members of the United Nations Working Group …
Alaa Abd El-Fattah – Letter to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Dear Members of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, We, the undersigned 34 freedom of expression and human rights organisations, are writing regarding the recent submission to the United Nations …
PEN Canada to honour Egyptian-British democracy advocate on September 23 at Toronto International Festival of Authors
Image: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, courtesy of www.freealaa.org . Photo by Mosaab El-Shamy. TORONTO, September 19, 2023 — Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a leading pro-democracy writer imprisoned in Egypt, has won PEN Canada’s One …