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Blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad Released
PEN International welcomes the release of blogger and activist Maikal Nabil Sanad, on January 24, 2012, days after an amnesty was announced by the authorities. PEN continues to call… More
Journey of the Sentence: A Conversation with Susan Bernofsky
In a way the scene exists to show you that lifestyle; if you translate it into something more neutral, then the scene loses a lot of its function and… More
Fairytale: How Spring Comes to the Land of Snow & Icicles / (Dream Map)
The body burns & smells like fake,/ like ammonia & blood & guts. / Barbie leg arrows, / black & white bust sizes, / swords as houses, & you… More
Paul Auster Responds to Turkish Prime Minister, Speaks for Jailed Writers
Author and PEN American Center Member Paul Auster issued a statement today addressed to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan that highlights the cases of Ragip Zarakolu and the scores… More
Fighting The Sad Scourge of Our Times
John Ralston Saul, Russell Banks, and Elena Poniatowska from PEN American Center, Marian Botsford Fraser from PEN Canada, and many others from PEN International and centers in Europe and Asia are traveling to Mexico… More
The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
When my parents walked into my room at the asylum, some motor in my brain spun and sparked a blue arc of electricity between two exiled neurons in my… More
Two Journalists Given 14 Years in Prison; One Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
Ethiopian journalists Reeyot Alemu and Woubshet Taye have been sentenced to 14 years in prison; Elias Kifle, who is currently in exile in the US, was tried in absentia… More
Editor Muhammed Bekjanov to Serve An Additional Five Years in Prison
Uzbek editor, Muhammed Bekjanov, held since 1999 on charges widely believed to have been fabricated and whose sentence was about to expire in the coming days, has been served… More
PEN International to Mexican Government: Killings of Journalists Must End
A delegation of PEN International today reiterated its call for “immediate and definitive action” to end the killings of journalists in Mexico. Calling the mounting death toll “an assault… More
PEN Appeal: Muhammed Bekjanov
January 30, 2012 Mr. Yuldashev Nigmatilla Tulkinovich Minister of Justice 5 Saylgokh Str Tashkent Republic of Uzbekistan 100047 Your Excellencies, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers dedicated… More
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