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the german shibboleth
Partners in Crime - Political philosopher John Keane writes for PEN Sydney on Germany's historical relationship with Israel and censorship of...
Solidarity with the Saturday Mothers
PEN Sydney reiterates its full solidarity with the Saturday Mothers and urges the authorities of Türkiye to uphold their rights to freedom of...
Selahattin Demirtaş sentenced to 42 years in prison
PEN Sydney condemns the sentencing of Kurdish writer and opposition politician in Türkiye “PEN International utterly condemns the shocking...
Iranian rapper sentenced to death
PEN Sydney condemns the death sentence issued to Toomaj Salehi and demands his immediate release Last week the Islamic regime in Iran sentenced the...
Words in a war
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...
Chronicling the corrosive effects of Empire in Zimbabwe
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize, Tsitsi Dangarembga is the voice of Zimbabwe Four days after learning that her novel, This Mournable Body had been...
Yang Hengjun trial deeply flawed
Australian PEN Centres condemn the suspended death sentence handed to Yang Henjung PEN International joins the undersigned PEN Centres in condemning...
Freedom of Expression in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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...
call for an international day against censorship
The Iranian Writers Association calls on PEN International and all PEN centres to recognise 4 December as The International Day Against Censorship....
countless journalists killed in gaza conflict
PEN Sydney joins PEN Interntational in strongly condemning the mounting violations of freedom of expression, including the killings and intimidation...
AI and free speech, creativity and democracy
In the hands of bad actors—whether public or private—generative AI tools can supercharge existing threats to free expression.PEN America’s...
The PEN Community mourns the passing of Nyi Pu Lay
The PEN community mourns the passing of writer and President of PEN Myanmar, Nyein Chan (henceforth referred to by his pen name, Nyi Pu Lay). On 21...