Secretary-general & Webmaster WANG Jinbo (essayist, editor, former prisoner; Beijing, China)
Deputy Secretary-general & Press Secretary PAN Yongzhong (essayist, editor, translator, publisher; Germany)
Deputy Secretary-general & Membership Rights Secretary YANG Guang (essayist, former prisoner; Hubei, China) Continue reading
The Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) has honoured two imprisoned writers, HU Shigen and Mahvash SABET (f, Iran) the ICPC’s 2016 Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award for their courage and perseverance in writing and fighting for freedom of experission and other basic rights despite the long-term imprisonment. In addition, ICPC have named six writers as new honorary members, including ZHANG Haitao, Shokjang (Tibetan), LU Yuyu, HUANG Wenxun, LI Tingyu (f) and WANG Yuping. Continue reading
ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers–Two Writers Honoured the Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award已关闭评论
Posted in Award, Headlines, honorary Members, ICPC News
Tagged honorary member, Hu Shigen, Huang Wenxun, ICPC, Li Tingyu, Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award, Lu Yuyu, Mahvash SABET, Shokjang, Wang Yuping, Zhang Haitao
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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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”; Continue reading
Announcement of Nomination for 2014 Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award of Independent Chinese PEN Center已关闭评论
Posted in ICPC News
China: 25 Years after Tiananmen Massacre
China: 25 Years after Tiananmen Massacre已关闭评论
Posted in ICPC News, June 4th Commemoration
