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PEN Haiti to host major international literary festival focusing on freedom of expression and literature in times of crisis.

- Festival to mark the anniversary of murdered Haitian writer and activist Jacques Stephen Alexis

- Haiti Free the Word! comes just over two years since PEN Haiti ’s founder, Georges Anglade, was killed in the devastating earthquake which struck the country in January 2010.

PEN International deeply saddened by the death of Thomas von Vegesack, publisher, writer and free speech activist.

Upcoming referendum in Latvia over making Russian second official language

Upcoming referendum in Latvia over making Russian second official language.

ECUADOR – Supreme Court upholds three-year prison sentences and huge fines against El Universo

16 February 2012

The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply disappointed that the Ecuadoran Supreme Court decided, during the early hours of 16 February 2012,

MEXICO – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8 MARCH 2012

Murdered and Disappeared Women Writers

Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world in which to be a writer. Since 2006, at least 45 journalists, writers and bloggers have been murdered or disappeared, most of them in the course of their work.

About PEN Jordan

PEN Jordan Literary association and non-profit organization, was decaled in 2007. Members are writers, translators, artists, and journalists. A branch of PEN International, and committed to its Charter to defend freedom of expression, and build cultural bridges with all the writers in the world.