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PEN President Appiah Calls Sentencing of Liu Xiaobo a Mockery and a Scandal
PEN American Center President Kwame Anthony Appiah issued the following statement in response to the conviction of writer and fellow PEN member Liu Xiaobo, who was sentenced today by… More
PEN Appeal: Tashi Rabten
August 18, 2009 His Excellency Hu Jintao President of the People’s Republic of China State Council Beijing 100032 P.R. China Zhang Qingli Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Party Committee Zhonggong Xizang Zizhiqu Weiyuanhui Lhasashi, Xizang Zizhiqu People's… More
International PEN Outraged by the Sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi
International PEN is outraged by the 18-month sentence handed down to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the NLD, writer and Nobel Peace laureate, on 11 August 2009.… More
PEN Denounces Detention of Jamyang Kyi
Writers from Canada, the United States, and China expressed concern today about reports that Jamyang Kyi, a prominent Tibetan writer, reporter, activist and singer, has been detained in Qinghai… More
PEN Condemns New Detention of Cyber-Dissident in China
Writers in the United States and Canada joined Chinese colleagues today in condemning China’s latest detention of a dissident for online commentaries about human rights in China. With the… More
In Surprise, PEN Honoree Attends Gala
A novelist from Turkmenistan whose books have been banned and who has been under house arrest for two years became the first writer in 20 years to personally accept… More
Turkmen Authorities Threatening to Prevent Writer from Accepting PEN Prize
PEN American Center is protesting an attempt by the government of Turkeminstan to prevent prominent novelist and dissident Rakhim Esenov from traveling to New York to receive a 2006… More
PEN expresses alarm over detention of Gambian independent paper editor & manager
Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,100 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers dedicated to protecting freedom of expression wherever it is threatened, we are… More
PEN, Rushdie: Extend Pamuk Victory to Other Turkish Writers
PEN, the international association of writers, welcomed the news today that Turkish prosecutors will not proceed with a court case against novelist Orhan Pamuk, but cautioned that more than… More
Statement on sentencing of International PEN Vice President Predrag Matvejevic
The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN condemns the use of criminal defamation laws that led to the conviction of its vice president, Croatian writer Predrag Matvejevic, to… More