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PEN Belarus president Taciana Niadbaj visits Helsinki
Visit to Helsinki 2.–4.5.2025 of PEN Belarus president Taciana Niadbaj Come and meet Taciana Niadbaj and hear about the state...
Kianoush Ramezani: Freedom after Expression: a new challenge
In 2006, I was invited to give a speech about Muhammad Cartoons and freedom of speech, at the Central European...
PEN International Fellowship 2018
Mojibur Doftori, PEN Finland’s board member and the chair of its Writers at Risk Committee, was invited as a fellow...
Mojibur Doftori: Gandhi’s East-West Synthesis and Its Relevance in the 21st Century
Why Gandhi? At the end of 2018, we have been witnessing a global trend of the rise of illiberal democracy....
Oleg Sentsov on hunger strike – sign Finnish PEN’s online appeal NOW
Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been on hunger strike since 14 May 2018 to urge the Russian authorities...
Egypt’s grim blow on freedom of expression and human rights: the tortured poet Galal El-Behairy must be freed
A Statement by Finnish PEN 8 May 2018 Updated 14 May 2018: More signatories added. Update on 26 June 2018: Galal...
Nordic PEN centers’ protest letter to President Rouhani
Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish PEN send a letter to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Nov 2nd to protest the...
Finnish PEN’s resolution on blasphemy accepted in Lviv
Resolutions adopted by the Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, meeting at its 83rd Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, 18 to...
Greetings from Lviv!
The 83rd Congress of PEN International was held in the UNESCO city of literature Lviv, Ukraine, on Sept. 17th–23rd 2017....
The Swedish PEN: Dissident Blog – Turkey Issue
“It was an obvious decision to devote this Dissident Blog to Turkey. Since July 2016 we have seen a steady...
TAKE ACTION: Oleg Sentsov
The appeal has been updated 15 Nov, 8 Aug & 19 May 2018. The original was published 7 August 2017....
Ahmed Zaidan: A Poet Sings for Life in Midst of Death…
…from the Dark Cellar, He Narrates His Story Umar Abdul-Nasser is an Iraqi poet from the city of Mosul northern...
TAKE ACTION: Aron Atabek
Aron Atabek is a poet, journalist and social activist. He has written several books of poetry and prose inspired by...
TAKE ACTION: Dawit Isaak
Dawit Isaak (b. 1964) is an Eritrean-Swedish journalist and playwright who was arrested in his home in Eritrea on January...
