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...
by PenSydney | Mar 5, 2024 | News
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 up listening to the sound of explosions, which announced the beginning of the full-scale invasion. At that moment, we...
by PenSydney | Mar 5, 2024 | News
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize, Tsitsi Dangarembga is the voice of Zimbabwe Four days after learning that her novel, This Mournable Body had been longlisted for the Booker Prize Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested. In March 2020 she had been holding a placard inscribed...
by PenSydney | Feb 6, 2024 | News
Australian PEN Centres condemn the suspended death sentence handed to Yang Henjung PEN International joins the undersigned PEN Centres in condemning the handing down of a suspended death to Australian writer Yang Hengjun, five years after he was detained and accused...
by PenSydney | Dec 4, 2023 | News
A personal response to the war by PEN Sydney’s Mansour Razaghi More than 16,000 people have been killed and housing and infrastructure has been destroyed on a massive scale. However, these are not the only devastating outcomes of the bloody conflict between...
