Apply to the 2024 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship | Deadline: June 1 brittlepaper.com/2024/03/apply-…

We join these 27 human rights orgs in urging the UNWGAD to act on Alaa Abd el-Fattah's case

People from the Horn have not been struggling for decades for y’all to keep lying about this man like this smh.

The erasure is wild. In 2024, I’m seeing Asmara described as Ethiopia’s ‘second major city’ in print 😫

#Serbia : PEN International condemns the mounting death threats against writer and academic Dinko Gruhonjić. The situation for freedom of expression in #Serbia is at a critical point. All those responsible must be held to account: pen-international.org/news/serbia-de…

Writer, philosopher, academic #FreddyQuezada was arrested at his home in #Nicaragua on 29 November 2023 for his writing critical of the government. He needs our help. TAKE ACTION for Quezada today. #FreeTheWriters : pen-international.org/our-campaigns/…

Yes! & write their names in any existing language: ዳዊት ኢሳቕ፣ኣማኑኤል ኣስራት፣ስዒድ እድሪስ (ኣቡ-ዓረ)፣ተመስገን ገ/የሱስ፣መድሃነ ሃይለ፣ፍስሃየ ዮውሃንስ፣ዩሱፍ መሓመድ ዓሊ፣ስዩም ጸሃየ፣ዳዊት ሃ/ኤል፣ስዒድ ዓ/ቃድር፣ሳህለ ጸ/ኣብ፣ማቴዎስ ሃ/ኣብ

September 2023 marked 22 years of the incommunicado detention without trial of a group of writers and journalists from #Eritrea . To mark the release of our Case List 2023/2024, TAKE ACTION to #FreeTheWriters today: pen-international.org/our-campaigns/…

PEN International case, #GalalElBehairy , has been held in arbitrary detention in #Egypt since July 2021 for his poetry. Don't let him be silenced. Join us and TAKE ACTION calling for his release, #FreeTheWriters pen-international.org/our-campaigns/… #FreeGalal #FreeThemAll

Imprisoned poet #GalalElBehairy , wrote these words to PEN International in June 2023 while on hunger strike in prison. He remains unjustly imprisoned in #Egypt for his poetry. Today, join us in taking action for Galal, demand his release. #FreeTheWriters : pen-international.org/our-campaigns/…

PEN International and PEN Centres worldwide remain deeply concerned by the dangerous prospect of #JulianAssange 's extradition to the #US going ahead after the #UK High Court adjourned his permission to appeal. Our statement: pen-international.org/news/julian-as…

#FreeAssange NOW #FreeAssange

TAKE ACTION for #GuiMinhai - poet, author, publisher, bookseller and member of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, who is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence in #China . #FreeTheWriters : pen-international.org/our-campaigns/…

Another busy, buzzy couple of days at #LBF2024 - incl so much insight into the interplay between the current publishing, cultural and political landscapes.

I also really loved hearing my fellow panellists’ top tips for author mental health resilience earlier today at Author HQ.

Next in the English PEN Literary Salon #LBF24 , Dina Nayeri, Awet Fissehaye /æwɛt/, Vidisha Biswas & Naima Khan discuss the UK ‘hostile environment’ & how its policies impact writers & creatives from refugee and migrant backgrounds. In partnership with Counterpoints Arts.

Join us at 13:45!

🧵 A thread for DefendDefenders' oral statements at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council ( #HRC55 ).

Today, at the first debate of the session, our Executive Director @Hassan_Shire delivered a statement on #Eritrea .

Read the full statement — and all future

ተስፋልደት፡ ተስፋ ዂልና ነይሩ!
By Dessale Berekhet

In memory of the late Tesfaldet Alem Meharena: tinyurl.com/2cdhs5we

The Committee to Protect Journalists has published its 2023 prison census and unfortunately, Eritrea is once again found to be the top jailer of journalists across Africa CPJ Africa More on the global census: cpj.org/reports/2024/0…

This year's most-read pieces on #PENTransmissions all testify, in their different ways, to the impossibly difficult times in which we live. But they also, in their different ways, remind us that hope and humanity are in fact possible – essential.

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Today, as part of the Day of the #ImprisonedWriter campaign, we join PEN International and PEN International - Las Américas y el Caribe in highlighting the case of #MariaCristinaGarrido , who was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment on March 10, 2022. Take action here: pen-international.org/our-campaigns/…

#SoulaimanRaissouni , prominent #Morocco journalist and former editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Akhbar al-Youm, was sentenced on 9 July 2021 to 5 yrs in prison on bogus charges. TAKE ACTION for Raissouni: pen-international.org/our-campaigns/…
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#IrynaDanylovych is a human rights defender, journalist, and medical professional. On 29 April 2022, she was abducted, forcibly disappeared. She was handed a 7-year sentence in the Russian Federation for her work on occupied Crimea. TAKE ACTION: pen-international.org/our-campaigns/… PEN International