Category Archives: Writers in Prison

PEN SA celebrates International Mother Language Day

by Deborah on Feb 21st, 2015

‘The right to speak, teach and learn in one’s own mother tongue is a fundamental human right. Language is key to knowing and expressing both one’s culture and one’s self. Continue reading

137. LÜ JIAPING (released)

Lv Jiaping

Sex                               Male

Birth date                1941-06-14

Birth place              Shanghai City

Resident place         Shaoyang City, Hunan Province Continue reading

155. LIU JIE (released)

Liu JiePen name                 Constitution Defender

Sex                               Female

Birth date                1952-01-03

Birth place              Wangkui County, Heilongjiang Province Continue reading

Zhai Minglei:The Kou Yanding I Know

SONY DSCPublished: February 4, 2015 (Chinese original was published in October, 2014.)

Get a glimpse of one of the quietest but most admirable NGO activists in China who has been held incommunicado since October 10th, 2014. – The Editor

KOU YANDING (寇延丁)

At this very moment, I am in Shanghai, jotting down some memories Continue reading

179. HUANG KAIPING (released)

Huang Kaiping

Sex                              Male

Birth date                1982-09-29

Birth place               Loudi City, Hunan Province

Resident place        Haidian District, Beijing Continue reading

Chang Ping:The Looming Shadow of the Case against Pu Zhiqiang

Published: January 20, 2015

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PU ZHIQIANG (浦志强). PHOTO FROM ONLINE.

On January 11, the Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) spent his fiftieth birthday behind bars. No one knows what was going through the mind of this famous and very vocal lawyer Continue reading

Chang Ping:Zhang Miao Receives “Treatment Reserved for Chinese Citizens”

Published: January 18, 2015

zhang-miaoZhang Miao

Three months after friend and assistant Zhang Miao (張淼) was arrested, Continue reading

192. FU ZHIBIN

Fu Zhibing Penname                      

Sex                             Male

Birth date                1964

Birth place               Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province

Resident place       Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province Continue reading