Articles by PEN America
Liu Xiaobo transferred to remote prison in Liaoning Province
The former president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center is serving an 11-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Poet Saw Wei released from prison
The poet was freed nearly five months after his sentence expired and two and a half years after he was sent to prison for one of his poems.
Poet and Belarusian PEN president Vladimir Neklyayev detained in Minsk
According to PEN’s information, Belarusian officials were specifically targeting the “Speak the Truth” campaign. Its offices were searched, and all computers, books and leaflets were confiscated.
Uighur PEN member barred from travel outside China
Two days before Ilham Tohti was scheduled to arrive in Turkey for an international conference, police reportedly went to his home in Beijing and warned him against making the trip.
Imprisoned Burmese blogger Nay Phone Latt to receive top PEN honor
The blogger is the recipient of the 2010 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, which will be presented at PEN’s Annual Gala on 27 April 2010.
More than 3,500 petition government to release journalists, writers
Petitioners’ names were collected through the “Our Society Will Be a Free Society” campaign, a coalition project dedicated to winning the freedom of all journalists jailed in Iran.
Writer prevented from travelling to German book festival, under house arrest
Liao Yiwu had been warned not to attend the festival, but insisted on exercising his right to travel freely.
Free press and free expression organisations to Iran: release jailed journalists, writers
A coalition of international journalists’, writers’, and publishers’ organisations has launched a campaign to press the government of Iran to release their imprisoned colleagues.