Category Archives: honorary Members

China: One year after court upholds life sentence, Uyghur PEN member Ilham Tohti must be released

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ilham685Tohti, PEN International is renewing its call on the Chinese authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally. Continue reading →

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Shocking: Details Uncovered of JIANG Lijun’s Torturous Experience in Custody of Shenyang Public Security

Posted on 03/24/2015 by | Shocking: Details Uncovered of JIANG Lijun’s Torturous Experience in Custody of Shenyang Public Security已关闭评论

(Published in Boxun on Mar 14, 2015)

Boxun has received, after several hands, the letter to Xi Jinping written by rights defender JIANG Lijun’s father, who is an old man in his very senior age. The letter has uncovered unimaginable torture that JIANG Lijun (姜力鈞, passport name [姜立軍]) and other detainees have suffered. Some detainee was even Continue reading →

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ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers

Posted on 11/15/2014 by | ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers已关闭评论

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15 November 2014

Chen Shuqing Honored the Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award and 17 Writers Adopted as Honorary Members

Chen ShuqingThe 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.

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An Internet Where Nobody Says Anything

Posted on 11/08/2014 by | An Internet Where Nobody Says Anything已关闭评论

Ilham Tohti’s unjust fate says much about the Chinese Communist Party’s dark vision for the web’s future.

BY DAVID WERTIME SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Here is what a court in Urumqi, the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, concludes Ilham Tohti, a balding, thick-set, 44-year-old professor, did: “Using ‘Uighur Online’ as a platform, and taking advantage of his role as a university professor,” Tohti “spread separatist notions” and “bewitched and coerced” seven of his students to join into an eight-person, web-powered splittist clique with international reach. Here is what Tohti, by all appearances, actually did: He created and maintained a Chinese-language website, called Uighur Online, that provided a bridge between China’s Han majority and its Uighur minority, a Turkic-language-speaking, predominantly Muslim group that mostly lives in Xinjiang and has an uneasy history of coexistence with the growing number of Han who live among them, one marred by violent clashes. Continue reading →

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ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers

Posted on 11/15/2013 by | ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers已关闭评论

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15 November 2013

Two Writers Honoured the Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award

The Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC) has honoured two imprisoned writers, TAN Zuoren and Nguyen Xuan Nghia (Vietnam) the ICPC’s 2013 Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award for their long-term tenacity and courage in writing despite the threat of imprisonment. In addition, ICPC have named four writers as new honorary members, including LIU Benqi, XU Zhiyong, LIU Hu and YANG Maodong. Continue reading →

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ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers

Posted on 11/15/2012 by | ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers已关闭评论

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15 November 2012

Two Writers Honoured Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award

Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC) has honoured two imprisoned writers, Dolma Kyab and WU Yilong, the laureates of ICPC’s Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award in 2012 for their long-term tenacity and courage in writing regardless of imprisonments. Besides, ICPC have named 8 new honorary members – CHEN Xi, GAO Zhisheng, Tashi Rabten, Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang, Kunga Tseyang, Gangkye Drubpa Kyab, RAO Wenwei and LI Bifeng. Continue reading →

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ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers

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Three Writers Honored To Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Awards

On 15 November 2011, Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC) announced that three imprisoned writers, Hada, QIN Yongmin and CHEN Wei, were honored as this year’s laureates of its Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award for their long-term tenacity and courage in writing regardless of repeated imprisonments; Besides, ICPC have granted 9 new honorary members, CHEN Wei, LI Tie, Memetjan Abdulla, WANG Lihong (Female), Jangtse Donkho, Buddha, Kalsang Jinpa, Dokru Tsultrim, and WEN Yan (aka SUN Buer). Continue reading →

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