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send a message of hope to amanda echanis
Writer and activist Amanda Echanis was arrested alongside her newborn son on 2 December 2020. Nearly four years later, Echanis remains in detention,...
pen sydney moves from ‘X’ to threads
We can no longer support the hate and disinformation that has flooded X since Elon Musk took over.In coordination with PEN Melbourne and PEN Perth,...
kurdish journalists killed in turkiye drone strike
PEN Sydney strongly condemns the assassination of two female journalists in Iraqi KurdistanInternational media outlets reported on 23 August that...
mary kostakidis misrepresented in complaint
Media freedom in Australia is at stake in a complaint made to the Human Rights Commission by the Zionist Federation of Australia.PEN Sydney is...
facing the anaconda
The stakes were high for memoir writer Qin Qin as she struggled with the unwritten red lines of the Chinese government's censorhip pen.‘I’m...
Remembering Sarah Hegazi
After waving a rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in Cairo a young woman is tortured. The band are censored and harrassed right across The...
the german shibboleth
Partners in Crime - Political philosopher John Keane writes for PEN Sydney on Germany's historical relationship with Israel and censorship of...
Solidarity with the Saturday Mothers
PEN Sydney reiterates its full solidarity with the Saturday Mothers and urges the authorities of Türkiye to uphold their rights to freedom of...
Selahattin Demirtaş sentenced to 42 years in prison
PEN Sydney condemns the sentencing of Kurdish writer and opposition politician in Türkiye “PEN International utterly condemns the shocking...
Iranian rapper sentenced to death
PEN Sydney condemns the death sentence issued to Toomaj Salehi and demands his immediate release Last week the Islamic regime in Iran sentenced the...
Words in a war
Tetiana Gubii fears her mother tongue is being silenced by war My mother is Russian, and I’m Ukrainian. On the 24th of February 2022, we both woke...
Chronicling the corrosive effects of Empire in Zimbabwe
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize, Tsitsi Dangarembga is the voice of Zimbabwe Four days after learning that her novel, This Mournable Body had been...