by PenSydney | Aug 5, 2024 | News
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 Middle East for their support of queer rights. It was September 2017 and 35,000 fans at Cairo’s Festival City were...
by PenSydney | Jun 18, 2024 | News
Partners in Crime – Political philosopher John Keane writes for PEN Sydney on Germany’s historical relationship with Israel and censorship of Pro-Palestinian voices in Germany today. Karl Marx, a rebel son of Jewish parents, famously remarked that in...
by PenSydney | Jun 6, 2024 | News
PEN Sydney reiterates its full solidarity with the Saturday Mothers and urges the authorities of Türkiye to uphold their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. The Saturday Mothers, a group of relatives of victims who were forcibly disappeared in...
by PenSydney | Jun 3, 2024 | News
PEN Sydney condemns the sentencing of Kurdish writer and opposition politician in Türkiye “PEN International utterly condemns the shocking sentencing of writer and honorary PEN member Selahattin Demirtaş to 42 years in prison. That he continues to languish behind bars...
by PenSydney | Apr 28, 2024 | News
PEN Sydney condemns the death sentence issued to Toomaj Salehi and demands his immediate release Last week the Islamic regime in Iran sentenced the Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi to death over his involvement in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in 2022-23. Toomaj...
