PEN International

91 NGOs call on UAE to immediately and unconditionally release award-winning human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor

Writer and human rights defender Anouar Rahmani is currently the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly insulting Islam following the publication of his latest novel, “Jibril’s Hallucination”.

Over 70 rights and expression organisations worldwide entreated the UN Human Rights Council’s 34th session to call on Turkey to take immediate steps to address the ongoing free expression crisis in the country.

The undersigned organisations condemn in the strongest possible terms today’s sentencing of Mehman Huseynov, Azerbaijani journalist and chairman of the country’s leading freedom of expression group, Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, to two years in jail on defamation charges. He was taken into custody from the court room, without being allowed to speak in […]

There is deep concern over the visibly political nature of the current trials and the blatant abuse of the Penal Code and Anti-Terror law against journalists and human rights defenders.

Ahead of upcoming landmark hearings, IFEX members join organisations from around the world to urge Turkish judiciary to uphold international fair trial standards.

Based in Nairobi for the past five years, British correspondent Jerome Starkey was detained without explanation at Nairobi airport on his return from a visit to the United Kingdom in December 2016 and was put on a flight back to London the next day.

PEN International is concerned at the arrest and detention of Kurdish Iranian writer and journalist Sajjad Jahan Fard, and that of his friend Hassan Baladeh, after taking pictures during a tourist visit to the city of Mardin, in the predominantly Kurdish South-east of Turkey.