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Publisher and Writer Face Imprisonment

Publisher Ragip Zarakolu and author Mehmet Güler, on trial in Turkey since May 2009, face prison sentences of up to seven and a half years for Güler’s novel More… More

PEN Appeal: Eynulla Fatullayev

March 12, 2010 Ilham Aliyev Office of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic 19 Istiqlaliyyat Street Baku AZ1066 Azerbaijan Fax: +994 12 492 0625 Lt.-Gen. Ramil Usubov Ministry of Internal Affairs Husu Hajiyev Street 7, 370005 Baku… More

PEN Appeal: Arun Singhaniya

March 12, 2010 Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers Singh Durbar Kathmandu, Nepal P.O. Box: 23312 Ministry of Home Affairs Singha Durbar Kathmandu Republic of Nepal Fax: +977 1 4211264 Your Excellencies, On… More

Newspaper Publisher Shot Dead

COLOMBIAInternational PEN protests in the strongest possible terms the murder of newspaper editor and publisher Clodomiro Castilla Ospina, who was shot dead in Montería, Córdoba, on March 19, 2010.… More

Bulbjerg

BulbjergWe suddenly found ourselves in an astonishing landscape: luminous, white-sand hills on all sides, wind-swept trees twisting beneath the blue, open sky. We gasped for breath, joyfully, as if… More

PEN Appeal: Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade

March 25, 2010 Ilham Aliyev Office of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic 19 Istiqlaliyyat Street Baku AZ1066 Azerbaijan Fax: +994 12 492 0625 Lt.-Gen. Ramil Usubov Ministry of Internal Affairs Husu Hajiyev Street 7, 370005 Baku… More