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President Joachim Gauck of Germany meeting with students after his speech at Tongji University in Shanghai on Wednesday. Credit Johannes Eisele/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
BEIJING — Four days before President Joachim Gauck of Germany began his first state visit to China on Sunday, the exiled writer Liao Yiwu visited Schloss Bellevue, the presidential residence in Berlin. Continue reading
German President Presses China on Political Prisoners During Visit已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, ICPC News, Press Freedom, Support Liu Xiaobo
Tagged Germany, Joachim Gauck, Liao Yiwu, Shanghai, Tienchi Martin-Liao, Tongji University
18 February 2016, Hermina Wong
Publishing and bookselling associations based in the US and Europe have penned a joint letter to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, urging him to take action on the missing Causeway Bay booksellers. Continue reading
International publishers urge Chief Executive to take action on missing booksellers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, ICPC News, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Bo, Mighty Current, PEN, publishers
The Honorable Leung Chun-ying
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
1 Tim Wa Avenue
Admiralty
Hong Kong
February 17, 2016
Your Excellency Chief Executive Leung: Continue reading
Posted in ICPC News, Press Freedom
Tagged Cheung Chi-ping, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kee, Lee Bo, Leung Chun-ying, Lui Por, Mighty Current, PEN
Press Release
9 Feburary 2016
The Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) held its 7th Congress of Membership Assembly at a Google group forum on Internet on 22 Janurary – 09 Feburary 2016. Among ICPC’s 318 members, 162 participated in the Congress. According to the agenda adopted by the Congress, five sessions were held. The Congress adopted an amendment to ICPC’s Rules of Procedure of Membership Assembly, approved the work report and financial report submitted by the Board and elected the new Board in accordance with the ICPC’s Charter. Columnist Mrs. Tienchi Martin-Liao, a former president, has been re-elected the new President.
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Pu Zhiqiang and Abduljalil Al-Singace Honored
Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award
And 27 Writers Adopted as Honorary Members
(10 December 2015)
Today is the International Human Rights Day as well as the fifth anniversary of Dr. LIU Xiaobo, the former and honorary president of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC), being awarded in absence to the Nobel Peace Prize, while two day earlier it had been seventh years since his detention. For commemoration of these dates, ICPC has honoured Mr. PU Zhiqiang, its honorary member as well as a lawyer and blogger detained in China, and Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace, an academic and blogger imprisoned in Bahrain, this year’s Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award for their long-term tenacity and courage in writing and fighting for freedom of expression and other basic rights despite imprisonment. In addition, ICPC have adopted twenty-seven of writers imprisoned in China as its new honorary members, namely FU Zhibin, YU Shiwen, LIU Haitao, DONG Tubin, XIE Wenfei, WANG Mo, SU Changlan (f), LIANG Qinhui, CHEN Yunfei, ZHANG Shenyu, HUANG Jingyi, WU Gan, ZHAO Haitong, WANG Quanzhang, SUI Muqing， XIE Yang, YANG Weidong, XIE Yanyi, WANG Yu (f), LI Heping, LIU Shaoming, SUN Feng, WANG Xiaolu, LIU Sixin, ZHAO Wei (f), LIU Wei and XIN Lijian. Continue reading
ICPC Statement for International Human Rights Day已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, ICPC News
Tagged Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award, Pu Zhiqiang
Title: Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award
Awardee: one or two individual annually;
Candidacy: Anyone in the case list of Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN who is still imprisoned or released under legal restriction of the right to freedom of expression, such as “deprivation of political rights”;
Nominator: Three individuals, or a PEN centre;
Nomination period: Starting on 23 June, anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s formal arrest and ending on 8 October;
Date to announce the awardee: Writers in Prison Day on 15 November;
Awarding Items: a certificate or trophy, prize check and awarding statement.
Prize: 2000 US dollars;
Nomination must be written in English or Chinese and should include the followings,
1. The nominee’s full name
2. Description of the nominee’s achievements, Continue reading
Announcement of Nomination for 2015 Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award of Independent Chinese PEN Center已关闭评论
Posted in ICPC News, Writers in Prison
Tagged Courage to Write Award
For Press Release
15 November 2014
The Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC) has honoured Mr. CHEN Shuqinqing, its member and an imprisoned writer in China, this year’s Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award for his long-term tenacity and courage in writing despite the threat of imprisonment. In addition, ICPC have adopted seventeen of writers imprisoned in China as its new honorary members, including WANG Bingzhang, GARTSE Jigme, WO Zhongxiao, WANG Jianmin, SHEN Yongping, TANG Jingling, WANG Qingying, YUAN Chaoyang, XU Zhiqiang, HUANG Zerong, GUO Yushan, KOU Yanding, HUANG Kaiping, ZHANG Miao, CHEN Kun, CHEN Yongzhou and JIANG Lijun.
ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers已关闭评论
Posted in Award, Documents, Headlines, honorary Members, ICPC News
Tagged CHEN SHUQING, Day of Imprisoned Writers, honorary members, Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write
Writers in Prison Committee
Independent Chinese PEN Center
August 2014
Writers and Journalists in Prison in China (recorded since 2004)
No.Name of WiP Sentence in Jail Remarks
1 KONG Youping 10 Years (15 y) 10 y Released
2 HUANG Jinqiu 8 y 1 m (12 y) 8 y 1 m Reduced
3 DU Daobin 3 Years 3 y + 1 m Released on bail
4 OUYANG Yi 2 Years 2 y Released Continue reading
