Visitors: 196 London International PEN announced today the launch of a year-long campaign in celebration of the Writers in Prison Committee’s 50th anniversary. The campaign-Because Writers Speak Their Minds-marks 50 years of defending freedom of expression around the world.“International PEN was created out of the scars of World War I to bring societies back together […]
Visitors: 183 Mexico Valentín Valdés Espinosa, co-founder of and journalist for the daily newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo, reportedly left the newspaper offices with two colleagues late on the night of 7 January 2010. In the centre of Saltillo, their car was intercepted by a group of men who forced Valdés and another, unnamed Zócalo reporter […]
Visitors: 166 Mexico Valentín Valdés Espinosa, co-founder of and journalist for the daily newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo, reportedly left the newspaper offices with two colleagues late on the night of 7 January 2010. In the centre of Saltillo, their car was intercepted by a group of men who forced Valdés and another, unnamed Zócalo reporter […]
Visitors: 202 Mexico José Alberto Velázquez López, editor and owner of the daily newspaper Expresiones de Tulum, based in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, and a contributor to a local television station, was shot dead in Cancún on 22 December 2009. Velázquez was driving home after a Christmas party for the newspaper staff when he was […]
Visitors: 310 Mexico José Alberto Velázquez López, editor and owner of the daily newspaper Expresiones de Tulum, based in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, and a contributor to a local television station, was shot dead in Cancún on 22 December 2009. Velázquez was driving home after a Christmas party for the newspaper staff when he was […]
Visitors: 183 China Sydney PEN is shocked and dismayed by the sentencing of dissident Chinese writer and academic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years imprisonment on charges of “subverting state power”. The trial was held on December 23, 2009 in Beijing, following Liu’s detention late last year. The trial concluded without providing a verdict until Friday, […]
Visitors: 267 China Sydney PEN is shocked and dismayed by the sentencing of dissident Chinese writer and academic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years imprisonment on charges of “subverting state power”. The trial was held on December 23, 2009 in Beijing, following Liu’s detention late last year. The trial concluded without providing a verdict until Friday, […]
Visitors: 166 LONDON, UK/TORONTO, CANADA, December 25, 2009 International PEN, the world’s leading freedom of expression organization with 145 member centres in 104 countries, calls today’s sentencing of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo a grievous betrayal of his inalienable rights as a Chinese citizen. In what amounts to a show trial, after weeks of courageous […]
Visitors: 155 LONDON, UK/TORONTO, CANADA, December 25, 2009 International PEN, the world’s leading freedom of expression organization with 145 member centres in 104 countries, calls today’s sentencing of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo a grievous betrayal of his inalienable rights as a Chinese citizen. In what amounts to a show trial, after weeks of courageous […]
Visitors: 198 International PEN Sydney Centre Honorary Member of Sydney PEN, Father Nguyen Van Ly, has reportedly suffered a serious stroke and has been transferred to a Hanoi hospital. As many of you already know, Fr Van Ly is a sixty-three-year-old priest, scholar and essayist and co-editor of an underground online magazine who has been […]
Visitors: 171 International PEN Sydney Centre Honorary Member of Sydney PEN, Father Nguyen Van Ly, has reportedly suffered a serious stroke and has been transferred to a Hanoi hospital. As many of you already know, Fr Van Ly is a sixty-three-year-old priest, scholar and essayist and co-editor of an underground online magazine who has been […]
Visitors: 213 15 November 2009 “Since November 2008, thirty-five print and online journalists have been murdered,” said Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee. “All over the world, writers and journalists and bloggers are suffering for practicing their right to speak out on issues that matter.” On 15 November 2009, International PEN’s […]