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PEN Sydney condemns the death sentence issued to Toomaj Salehi and demands his immediate release Last week the Islamic regime in Iran sentenced the...

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...

Shortlisted for The Booker Prize, Tsitsi Dangarembga is the voice of Zimbabwe Four days after learning that her novel, This Mournable Body had been...

Australian PEN Centres condemn the suspended death sentence handed to Yang Henjung PEN International joins the undersigned PEN Centres in condemning...

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...

The Iranian Writers Association calls on PEN International and all PEN centres to recognise 4 December as The International Day Against Censorship....

PEN Sydney joins PEN Interntational in strongly condemning the mounting violations of freedom of expression, including the killings and intimidation...

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 writer and President of PEN Myanmar, Nyein Chan (henceforth referred to by his pen name, Nyi Pu Lay).  On 21...

Bread and Roses was secretly filmed with the use of multiple covert cameras in the weeks following the fall of Kabul. Picture courtesy of...

On the 13th of July PEN Sydney hosted “Tales of the Wind,” an evening of Uyghur poetry, food and dance to help raise money for The World Uyghur...

Ann Patchett on twitterWhen tragedy came to Nashville, when a person with a gun shot to death three children and three adults at a local school in...