London, 6 January 2016
An upsurge in cases of possible enforced disappearances in China in the context of an ongoing crackdown on dissent is deeply worrying, PEN International, the global writers’ organisation said today. Since November 2015, five Chinese writers, publishers and booksellers have disappeared in China and Thailand and PEN believes that it is highly likely that they are detained by the Chinese authorities in conditions amounting to enforced disappearance. Continue reading
China: End use of enforced disappearances against writers and publishers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, Press Freedom
Tagged enforced disappearance, Hong Kong Economic Journal, PEN, Publisher
RAN 15/15
23 December 2015
PEN International is deeply concerned at the news that prominent Chinese author Wang Lixiong was barred from traveling to Japan on 16 December 2015 apparently due to concerns that his visit would “damage national security.” The Japanese translation of his 1991 novel “Yellow Peril” about an apocalyptic civil war in China went on sale in Japan in November 2015. Wang is known for his critical views of the Chinese authorities’ treatment of minorities. Arrested in 1999, he spent 42 days in prison, and has been placed under house arrest several times, including most recently in July 2014 with his wife, Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser during the visit to China of US Secretary of State John Kerry. PEN International is calling for the travel ban to be lifted, as it is a violation of the right to freedom of movement and to freedom of expression, as provided under Articles 12 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which China is a signatory. Continue reading
China: Prominent author barred from travelling已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News
Tagged PEN, Wang Lixiong
‘Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.’ – Liu Xiaobo Continue reading
China: Seven years after his arrest PEN writers urge China to release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, Support Liu Xiaobo
Tagged Human Rights, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, PEN
26 November 2015
Update #3 to RAN 09/14
PEN International is deeply disappointed by the Beijing high court’s decision of 26 November 2015 not to overturn veteran journalist Gao Yu’s conviction for ‘leaking state secrets abroad’. Following a closed hearing held on 24 November, the court ruled to reduce her sentence to five years. PEN continues to condemn her conviction and sentence, and calls for her immediate and unconditional release. Nonetheless, PEN welcomes reports that Gao Yu is due to serve the remainder of her sentence under house arrest due to concerns for her deteriorating health and strongly urges the Chinese authorities to ensure that Gao Yu is afforded adequate medical care. Continue reading
China: Conviction of veteran journalist Gao Yu upheld on appeal已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, RAN About Chinese
Tohti, PEN International is renewing its call on the Chinese authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally. Continue reading
China: One year after court upholds life sentence, Uyghur PEN member Ilham Tohti must be released已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, PEN International News
Tagged Ilham Tohti, PEN, petition
By EDWARD WONG SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 5:04 AM September 18, 2015 5:04 am
A photograph of Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. In 2009, he was charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to 11 years in prison.Credit Espen Rasmussen for The New York Times
For them, pens and laptops are the tools of their trade and their megaphones to the world. Among their ranks are some of the best-known chroniclers of American society and Continue reading
PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, Press Freedom, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged America, Gao Yu, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, PEN, Release, Writer
September 26, 2014
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – Over 200 delegates and PEN members will gather in Bishkek next week for the 80th PEN International Congress, bringing together prominent writers, journalists and poets from across Continue reading
Writers from 80 PEN Centres from across the globe gather in Bishkek for the annual PEN International Congress已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged PEN, PEN International Congress
Posted August 14th, 2014 by Tasja Dorkofikis & filed under Press.
To commemorate the centenary of The Great War, PEN Atlas Continue reading
‘While the Gods Were Sleeping’已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged Erwin Mortier, Novelist, PEN
