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...
by Blick | Nov 16, 2022 | News
Join us for a special fundraising dinner in support of PEN Afghanistan, which is currently operating in exile. The evening will be an intimate gathering of the Afghan and Australian communities, celebrating freedom of expression and continuity of culture. We...
by Blick | Oct 30, 2022 | News
PEN Sydney and PEN International, express our extreme concern at the formal arrest in Turkey of prominent academic, forensic scientist, and leading human rights defender Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı, on charges of disseminating propaganda for a terrorist...
by Blick | Oct 17, 2022 | News
Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert discusses her memoir The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison which details her experiences detained in Iran as a political prisoner. Dr Moore-Gilbert will draw on her own story to highlight the impact of public advocacy and campaigning...
by Blick | Oct 2, 2022 | News
Mahsa (Zhina) Amini was a 22- year-old Kurdish Iranian woman whose death in custody following her arrest by Iran’s “morality police” has sparked continuing mass protests across Iran. Mahsa was arrested on September 13 in Tehran for allegedly not following the...
by Blick | Sep 29, 2022 | News
“Allah is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed Bhagwan” – Sami Shah, by way of Friedrich Nietzsche. It should be safe for me to write that. It’s just words after all. At best, it’s a bit of harmless satire, remixing the words of a great philosopher to challenge...
