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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...

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Ali AsadollahiThe death in police custody of the young Iranian-Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini, for wearing ‘inappropriate attire,’ instigated a...

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...

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...

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PEN Sydney and PEN International, express our extreme concern at the formal arrest in Turkey of prominent academic, forensic scientist, and leading...

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...

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...

“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....

On Wednesday 31 August 2022 the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) announced in a statement that Arash Ganji was being transferred to Rajaei-Shahr...

Creative Commons licenced image – author CKThe assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie is an attack on freedom of expression.  In it there is a...