by PenSydney | Nov 14, 2024 | News
Writer and activist Amanda Echanis was arrested alongside her newborn son on 2 December 2020. Nearly four years later, Echanis remains in detention, separated from her child. The charge that was brought against Amanda Echanis—illegal possession of firearms, ammunition...
by PenSydney | Oct 18, 2024 | News
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, PEN Sydney has decided to leave X (formerly known as Twitter) because use of the platform is irreconcilable with the...
by PenSydney | Sep 7, 2024 | News
PEN Sydney strongly condemns the assassination of two female journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan International media outlets reported on 23 August that two Kurdish female journalists were killed in a drone attack in Said Sadiq, Sulaymaniyah province, in the Kurdistan...
by PenSydney | Aug 14, 2024 | News
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 concerned by the Zionist Federation of Australia’s (ZFA’s) referral of Mary Kostakidis to the Human Rights Commission. PEN...
by PenSydney | Aug 5, 2024 | News
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 genuinely scared of bringing up so many negatives about China. The place is run on self-censorship because of fear,’ I...
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...
