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PEN Myanmar member Wai Moe Naing was convicted of high treason for his role as a protest leader and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.

Eric M. B. Becker speaks with ko ko thett, coeditor of the anthology Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring, about witness poetry and writers' resistance to government persecution in Myanmar.

The difficult plight of writers living under authoritarian rule has been well-documented over decades, with some enduring impossibly harsh treatment for their truth-telling and resistance to repression. Frequent targets to be silenced through arrest, torture, prison and even death, writers, says Karin Deutsch Karlekar of Pen America, “are paying a very heavy price for free expression, which of course is not a crime.”

Malaysian writer Uthaya Sankar SB was held overnight and is now being investigated for a remark he posted on social media regarding the Prophet Mohammad.

Ma Thida (an alias) lives in a Mandalay Region town where she has been working as a journalist since attending a basic journalism training course organized by a local news agency in 2020.

On 3 November 2021, 54 organisations once again urged the Turkish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release news editor, reporter and poet Nedim Türfent, and to overturn his conviction. The day marks 2000 days since he was arrested and subsequently sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison on trumped-up terrorism charges following an unfair trial, during which scores of witnesses said they had been tortured into testifying against him.

IFEX joins other organisations in once again urging the Turkish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release news editor, reporter and poet Nedim Türfent, and to overturn his conviction. It's been 2000 days since he was arrested and subsequently sentenced on trumped-up terrorism charges, following an unfair trial.

Thousands of people from Myanmar living in Japan marched in downtown Tokyo on Sunday to protest the military coup back home, some holding photos of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and signs deploring the loss of human rights. The gathering, which started in a park and&#x...

Thousands of people from Myanmar living in Japan marched in downtown Tokyo on Sunday to protest the