by Blick | Feb 3, 2023 | News
İlhan Sami Çomak was a wide-eyed university student from a Kurdish village when 29 years ago he was detained in Istanbul by Turkish authorities. He has been in prison ever since. There he became a poet, penning deep and beautiful words about his confinement and his...
by Blick | Jan 29, 2023 | News
In September, Burmese poet Maung Yu Py was released following his detention in March 2021. We continue to call for the immediate release of all those detained for their peaceful expression in Myanmar. In June, the lawsuit against the Peruvian author, Christopher...
by Blick | Jan 25, 2023 | News
If you love the SWF and have time, why not volunteer for SWF? A long term partner of PEN Sydney – providing us with support to deliver one of our key Free Voices lectures each year, along with presenting so many other great things. Hurry! Applications due 5...
by Blick | Jan 14, 2023 | News
Ali Asadollahi The death in police custody of the young Iranian-Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini, for wearing ‘inappropriate attire,’ instigated a woman-led uprising against the totalitarian religious regime in Iran with unprecedented nationwide and international...
by Blick | Dec 29, 2022 | News
PEN Sydney statement for Mahvash Sabet PEN Sydney strongly condemns the detention of Baha’i writer and poet Mahvash Sabet in Evin prison, Tehran who is currently being held in solitary confinement. We call on the Iranian authorities to immediately release her and...
by Blick | Dec 7, 2022 | News
Aida Amidi a member of the IWA board PEN Sydney and PEN America today condemned the recent arrests of three Iranian writers—Roozbeh Sohani, Aida Amidi, and Alireza Adineh—and raised alarm over the continued targeting of writers for their free expression. The three...
