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PEN Appeal: Pierre Fould Gerges
June 12, 2008 Minister of Justice and the Interior Sr. Ramón Rodríguez Chacín Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Interiores y Justicia Av. Urdaneta, Edif. Sede MIJ, Piso 1, Carmelitas Caracas, Venezuela Fax: 011-58-212-861-2097 Attorney General Dra.… More
Poet Melissa Rocío Patiño Hinostroza Released
International PEN welcomes the release pending trial of the 20-year-old poet Melissa Rocío Patiño Hinostroza, who was released from maximum-security prison on May 8, after 70 days’ detention. More
Journalist Frank Chikowore Charged But Remains Detained
International PEN protests the continuing detention of freelance journalist and Internet writer Frank Chikowore, who was charged with "public violence" on April 21, 2008, almost a week after his… More
Newspaper Editor Given One-Month Prison Sentence
International PEN protests the one-month prison sentence imposed on Aboubacar Gourouza, managing editor of L’Eveil Plus, on March 6, 2008, for charges of bringing the Nigeri justice system into… More
PEN Appeal: Ibrahim Souley & Soumana Idrissa Maiga
February 20, 2008 Président de la République S.E.M .Tandja Mamadou PO Box 369 Niamey, Niger Fax: + 227 2073 3430 H.E. Mr. Aboubacar Ibrahim Abani 417 East 50th Street New York, NY 10022 Fax: (212) 753-6931 Your Excellencies, On behalf… More
Newspaper Editor & Founder Both Sentenced to One Month in Prison for Libel
International PEN protests the one-month prison sentence imposed on February 8, 2008, on Ibrahim Souley and Soumana Idrissa Maiga, managing editor and founder respectively of the bimonthly publication L’Enquêteur,… More
Human-Rights Activist and Her Husband Briefly Detained and Assaulted
International PEN joins the protests by the Tunisian Monitoring Group (TMG) against the attack on journalist and human-rights activist Sihem Bensedrine and her husband, Omar Mestiri, editor and managing… More
PEN Appeal: Frank Chikowore
April 22, 2008 His Excellency President Robert G. Mugabe Office of the President Munhumutapa Building Samora Machel Avenue, 3rd Street, Box 7700 Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe Fax: +263 4 734 644 Augustine Chihuri, Commissioner-General of… More
Trading Words
But mere words were inadequate vessels to contain the sense of shock and horror that people felt. R. W. Apple, The New York Times, 9.12.02falling bodiesfalling bodiesand—blind skyscrapers… More
PENPals: A Correspondence with Markus Zusak & Susan Campbell Bartoletti
For me, a book doesn't belong to me; it belongs to the readers. In the case of Hitler Youth, the book belongs to those people who allowed me into… More
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