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China: PEN renews its calls to release all writers, journalists and publishers

Posted on 12/07/2016 by editor | 已关闭评论

7 December 2016

RAN 24/16

Ahead of World Human Rights Day, PEN International reiterates its calls on the Chinese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all writers, journalists, bloggers and publishers held for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of opinion, expression and association. The number of detained and imprisoned writers in China is among the highest in the world. PEN also calls on the authorities to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights without further delay. Continue reading →

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Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, RAN About Chinese

Tagged Journalist, PEN, Publisher, RAN, Writer

PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese

Posted on 09/18/2015 by | 已关闭评论

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 →

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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

Tibetan activist-writer challenges China’s ‘rule of law’ rhetoric in new book

Posted on 11/25/2014 by | 已关闭评论

WEDNESDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2014

Tibetan writer and activist Lhaden. (File/TCHRD)

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has recently obtained a book written by Lhaden, a Tibetan writer and activist living inside Tibet. This latest book, Continue reading →

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Tagged Lhaden, Tibetan, Writer