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Writer Detained for Insulting the Monarchy

International PEN is seriously concerned about the detention of Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, who is charged with “lèse-majesté”or “insulting the monarchy” for his 2005 novel Verisimilitude. More

PEN Appeal: Harry Nicolaides

September 17, 2008 Samak Sundaravej Prime Minister The Secretariat of the Prime Minister, Office of the Prime Minister Government House, Pitsanulok Road Dusit, Bangkok 10300 Thailand Fax: +66 2 280 0858 Sompong Amornwiwat Minister of Justice Office of the… More

PEN Appeal: Mohammed Erraji

September 17, 2008 Abbas El Fassi Le Premier Ministre Palais Royal, Touarga Rabat, Morocco Fax: +212 037 768656 M. Abdelwahad Radi Le Ministre de la Justice Place El Mamoumia Rabat, Morocco Your Excellencies, On behalf of the 3,300 members of… More

Song for Night

Death Is Two Fingers Sliding Across the ThroatDeath is always the expectation here and when my throat was cut it was no different. Nobody explained it at first. Nobody… More

The Perfect Man

Gerard Travers lifted the little dark boy off the train and onto the platform at Victoria. It had been a hard journey from India for the child, who had… More

Transparency

He wanted to remember them, but it seemed impossible for his mind to remember anything so beautiful and vast. On previous vacations, he had bought a postcard or two… More