On World Refugee Day 2018 we are highlighting our campaign, Make Space, on displaced and exiled writers.
At PEN Melbourne we have been supporting Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish-Iranian journalist, writer, and asylum seeker, detained by Australia for years now.
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This case is shocking, deplorable in the world's so-called greatest democracy. make sure you read the case on @pen_int link below.
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#TeestaSetalvad
#India: Detained in retaliation for seeking government accountability, writer and human rights defender #TeestaSetalvad now faces a potential life sentence if convicted. Our statement ⬇️
...https://pen-international.org/news/india-arrest-writer-human-rights-defender-teesta-setalvad-latest-assault-civil-society
People say that (writers) are pretty powerless: we don’t have an army, we don’t have a bureaucracy. But if that were true, then why would writers be arrested?... Because the spoken word is powerful.
