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Newspaper Editor Sentenced to Six Months’ Imprisonment Released
PEN welcomes the release of Faustin Bambou, editor of the weekly Les Collines de l‘Oubangui, who was sentenced to six months in prison on defamation charges after an unfair… More
PEN Protests Cyber-Attacks Against Woeser
PEN American Center today expressed “profound concern” that Beijing-based Tibetan writer Woeser is apparently the target of serious cyber-attacks aimed at disrupting her personal communications and suppressing her voice,… More
PEN Appeal: Faustin Bambou
February 6, 2008 Monsieur le Ministre Monsieur Thierry MALEYOMBO Ministre de la Justice, Garde des sceaux Ministère de la Justice BP 732 BANGUI, République centrafricaine Fax: + 236 21 611579/ 613198 Monsieur le Ministre Monsieur Cyriaque… More
Newspaper Editor Sentenced to Six Months in Prison in Unfair Trial
International PEN protests the six-month prison sentence imposed on Faustin Bambou, editor of the privately owned weekly Les Collines de l‘Oubangui on January 28, 2008. More
Chinese Writer and Professor Guo Quan Detained
Guo Quan, a writer and former associate professor of literature at Nanjing Normal University, has been detained for his articles on the government response to the May 12th earthquake… More
Tomaz Salamun: Poems
From Otrok in Jelen and Morje.Translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry and Tomaž Šalamun.FrontierBut you know, suffering also decaysand remains dust.The frontier is my living body.When a peasant… More
Chen Daojun Detained as Crackdown Intensifies in China During Olympic Torch Relay
Chen Daojun, a freelance writer and journalist, has been detained on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power,” the second writer jailed on subversion charges in a week in… More
Chinese Authorities Detain Writer Zhou Yuanzhi
Zhou Yuanzhi, a writer and member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, has been detained in connection with his writings and could face trial for inciting subversion, a development… More
Public Lives/Private Lives
A Morning in Brooklyn It is too early yet to be awake. In a dreamjust now I walkedthrough a house I once lived ineverything shabby now varnished and glitteringa… More
Decomposition by the Ljubljanica
Decomposition by the Ljubljanica The tower with its clock & flagclicks & flaps above the riverletas you wait & ply your brainwith caffeine & wait with the holein your… More
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