PEN America Condemns China’s Arrest of Exiled Mongolian Writer and Historian Lhamjab A. Borjigin
These efforts infringe on the rights to freedom of opinion and belief, cultural expression, and education, protected by Chinese and international law. The arrest on Mongolian soil and immediate… More
New Inner Mongolia Education Policy Threatens to Degrade Language Rights
"It is difficult to understand how the Chinese government can claim with a straight face to be upholding the language rights of ethnic Mongolians, when this new policy will… More
Closed-Door Trial of Mongolian Historian Lhamjab Borjigin a “Continued Attack on Historical Inquiry”
“Lhamjab Borjigin may be the one standing before the court, but it is clearly his research and historical writings that the authorities are seeking to put on trial." More
Detention of Southern Mongolian Author is Putting Historical Inquiry on Trial
Summer Lopez: “By arresting Borjigin, the authorities are in fact putting historical inquiry on trial. If prosecutors indeed bring charges against Borjigin, they are showing that they consider historical documentation to… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
US drops in standing in global press freedom survey, Mongolia media goes dark to protest curbs, and more. More
Mongolia’s Modernist Voice: On Translating Tseveendorjin Oidov
Tseveendorjin Oidov stands alone in the Mongolian literary scene as a poet who has for more than 40 years pursued his own path, apparently disinterested in the fashions of… More
The End of the Dark Era
Simon Wickhamsmith is the recipient of a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of a collection of poems by Mongolian poet Tseveendorjin Oidov. More