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Bangladeshi writer and journalist Mushtaq Ahmed died in custody at Kashimpur High Security Prison on Thursday after nearly ten months…
Ahmed Naji is the author of three books, a journalist at literary magazine Akhbar al-Adab, and a frequent contributor to…
Ahmed Naji was temporarily released from prison in Egypt on December 22, 2016, after his two-year prison sentence for “violating…
NEW YORK—The denial this weekend of Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji’s motion to stay his two-year sentence perpetuates the injustice of…
This month, PEN features the case of 2016 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award winner Ahmed Naji, whose case is emblematic…
Read the Summary >> This report reflects PEN America’s 2020 Index findings. For our complete, up-to-date database, see the Writers at…
Open letter to the Emirati authorities to free human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor on his 50th Birthday Your Excellency, Sheikh…
Chimamanda Adichie, Woody Allen, Michael Chabon, Philip Roth, and more call on Sisi to free novelist jailed for ‘violating public…
Ahmed was arrested alongside ten people under the Digital Security Act for writing online about the government’s handling of the…
