PEN urges Chinese government to free dissident poets Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia
PEN International has called (once again) for the Chinese government to release poet and human rights advocate Liu Xiaobo, who was sentenced in 2008 to eleven years in prison for “inciting subversion… Read more »
Chinese publisher of dissident literature sentenced to ten years for ‘smuggling’
Goddamnit, China. Earlier this month I wrote that I’d like to see more nuance in our discussions of Chinese publishing, something beyond the tired stories of censorship, juxtaposed with stories… Read more »
What’s happening to dissenting voices in Hong Kong? Like book publisher Yao Wentian, they’re getting arrested
Yao Wentian, the publisher of Morning Bell Press in Hong Kong, was arrested on October 27, and has remained in prison for the last three months in spite of numerous… Read more »
Appeal for arrested Iranian writers
Today is World Refugee Day, and thoughts turn to regimes that imprison their writers, forcing others into exile. Iran is one such regime, and PEN last week launched an appeal on… Read more »