Articles by PEN International
NGOs to Morocco: Drop charges against journalist Ali Anouzla once and for all
As one of the most respected Arab journalists in the region, Ali Anouzla’s publications are renowned for their unequivocally pro-democracy editorial line that translates into a critical yet fair treatment of the real power holders in Morocco.
Turkey: Remembering Hrant Dink on the anniversary of his assassination
“Hrant was killed because he was trying to remind us of a history of oddness without shaming us. He was trying to speak without blaming. His was an act of ‘revolutionary embarrassment’. Had he shouted aloud, blaming us, finger pointing us out as ‘murderers’, he wouldn’t have been killed.”
On the anniversary of Charlie Hebdo, dissenting voices must be protected
Civil society groups mark the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack by calling on governments worldwide to fulfill their obligation to protect freedom of expression.
After 13 months, Honduran state finally complies with IACHR order
The Honduran state has finally suspended the court-imposed work ban that has prevented Globo TV journalist and PEN Honduras member Julio Ernesto Alvarado from presenting his nightly news show since 30 October 2015.
China urged to release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia
8 December 2015 marked the seventh anniversary of the arrest of Nobel Peace Laureate and former president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, Liu Xiaobo.
RSF launches international appeal for release of Cumhuriyet journalists
“The judicial system seems to prosecute journalists more often than the accomplices of Daesh (Islamic State). Turkey is a great country, with democratic institutions and a very open civil society. We appeal to the government, as a matter of honour, to restore all the conditions of pluralism, starting with freedom for journalists.”
Shock, outrage as Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to death
Ashraf Fayadh, a poet, was first detained in August 2013 in relation to his collection of poems, Instructions Within. According to reports, Fayadh, originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes in May 2014, is now due to be executed following a retrial.
Call for release of Buddhist monk and prominent Vietnamese dissident Thich Quang Do
A renowned spiritual leader, scholar, dissident and many-times Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Thich Quang Do, 87, has spent more than three decades in detention in Vietnam for his peaceful advocacy of religious freedom, democracy and human rights.