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‘We demand the truth’: Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee lead calls for proof of life of disappeared Eritrean writers

More than 180 writers sign letter renewing calls for information on 12 authors detained incommunicado since 2001 crackdown on free speech by Isaias Afwerki

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian poet Myroslav Herasymovych killed in frontline, brother says

Poet dies in war just four days before turning 57

The Independent UK

Yavuz Ekinci terrorist propaganda charges in Turkey are ‘bogus’, says PEN International

The writer could face up to seven-and-a-half years in prison for charges relating to his 2014 book about a Kurdish man who flees Turkey, which was banned there last year

The Guardian - UK

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Turkey opens another 'Kafkaesque' trial against scholar exiled to France

The latest trial in absentia of Turkish sociologist Pinar Selek opened in Istanbul on Friday, after four previous prosecutions resulted in acquittal. Turkish authorities accuse Selek, who has taken refuge in France and teaches in Nice, of "terrorism" in a case that dates back to 1998.

Radio France Internationale

Writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards in support of Gaza

Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation

The Guardian - UK

103 Nobel winners demand the release of Nobel Peace laureate Ales Bialiatski

One hundred and three Nobel winners including Nobel Literature laureates Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro, JM Coetzee and Olga Tokarczuk have signed an open letter by Pen International and expressed their solidarity with Nobel Peace Prize 2022 winner Ales Bialiatski, who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a…

The Times of India

Over 100 notable writers call on President Murmu to support free expression

Collection of writings on India at 75 also released; Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri among contributors

The Hindu

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Margaret Atwood joins writers condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine

The author was among more than 1,000 signatories to an open letter by PEN International saying there ‘can be no free and safe Europe without a free and independent Ukraine’

The Guardian - UK

Writers stand united in a call for peace

Letter: Signatories from PEN International call for an end to the violence unleashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Ugandan novelist detained again despite release order: Lawyer

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was arrested in December for allegedly offending President Museveni and his son on Twitter.

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