Freedom to Write, Freedom to Read
English PEN have launched a crowdfunding campaign to ensure that a hand-annotated copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the judge in its landmark obscenity trial can remain in the …
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UPDATE (12 June 2019): PEN welcomes the release of Turkish writer, journalist and publisher Ayşe Düzkan, who was serving an 18-month prison sentence for ‘making propaganda for a terrorist organisation’. …
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English PEN joins PEN International in welcoming the news that journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were released from jail in Myanmar on 7 May 2019. The two Reuters …
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Writer in residence Mimi Mefo speaks to fellow journalists from Cameroon about their concerns on World Press Freedom Day For the past three years, practicing journalism has become a daunting …
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‘I want you to know that your letters, which have rendered iron curtains meaningless and ineffective, have filled my two-steps’-long cell with resistance, resolve and hope. At this time when …
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