PEN International Weekly Newsletter: 10 December 2012

PEN International’’s weekly on-line round-up with updates of news and alerts from the PEN Community.

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PEN urges immediate release of Liu Xiaobo on International Human Rights Day

PEN International urges the Chinese government to mark this year’s International Human Rights Day by immediately releasing poet and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia. Read more here.

In the Hug of Arms Anthology

Mariela Baeva, a member of the PEN International’s Women Writers Committee, former member of the European Parliament and current LEED partner, has edited an excellent anthology in tribute to innocent victims of armed conflicts (WWII, Arab Spring, other regions of turbulence and radical change). Read the full anthology here.

PEN International Writers in Prison Committee Chair’s Notebook # 10
"Dear PEN Colleagues,

Since the Congress in September, 2012, the Writers in Prison Committee has been extremely busy. The last few months have also seen a high number of urgent alerts on behalf of writers at risk in Brazil, Mexico, Qatar, Vietnam, Bahrain, China…" Read the full update here.

PEN International in partnership with Front Line Defenders launches International Campaign for Poet and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo

To mark the second anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to our colleague Liu Xiaobo, poet and former president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC), PEN International, in partnership with the Dublin-based human rights organisation Front Line Defenders, is launching an international campaign to call for his release. Read more here.

PEN International Launches Anthology WRITE AGAINST IMPUNITY

This exciting anthology incorporates the work of some of the most eminent Latin American writers and journalists, including: Claribel Alegría, Homero Aridjis, Gioconda Belli, Lydia Cacho, Ariel Dorfman, José Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, Sergio Ramírez, Gloria Guardia, Carmen Boullosa, Victor Terán and Luisa Valenzuela. Read the full anthology here.

Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2012

To Mark this years Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN Centres around the world staged events, commemorating friends and colleagues who resist repression of the basic human right to freedom of expression. To read a full report on PEN Centre Activities click here.

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