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Proud to publish a letter by @pen_belarus member and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski.
Read and take action to #FreeAlesBialiatski and all those unjustly imprisoned in #Belarus
https://pen-international.org/news/belarus-free-writer-and-human-rights-defender-ales-bialiatski
Today a Superior Court Judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut granted a motion to reduce my client’s 7-year prison sentence for robbery by two years. My client, who among other things won a @PENamerica national writing competition while in prison, earned this chance to come home sooner
Discover a new author this holiday season:
Check out this list of books authored by alumni of PEN America's Emerging Voices Fellowship (@pen_ev)📚🎁#FridayReads #BooksMakeGreatGifts https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-pen-america-emerging-voices-alumni