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Myanmar writers this year feature prominently in PEN America’s annual Freedom to Write Index, providing a count of the writers and public intellectuals who were held in prison or detention during 2021 in relation to their writing or for otherwise exercising their free expression.

The military coup and ensuing crackdown on dissent has snapped shut the limited openness of Myanmar’s decade of reform.

Freedom to Write Index documents least 277 writers, academics, and public intellectuals in 36 countries—in all geographic regions of the world—unjustly imprisoned or held in detention in connection with their writing or other exercise of free expression in 2021. This was a slight increase from 2020, when 273 individuals were counted behind bars, but the past two years, covering the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, both represent a significant increase from 2019, when the Freedom to Write Ind...

Exclusive: Junta detained at least 26 intellectuals last year as it sought to suppress opposition

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PEN America está agora contratando para a vaga de Director, PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center em New York. Inscreva-se agora.

PEN America is now hiring for the position of Director, PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center in New York. Apply today.

Nearly a year into military rule plagued by unlawful killings and mass detentions of protestors, Myanmar writers and artists remain determined to continue their creative work and use their voices to challenge the regime, according to a report by PEN America.

Nearly a year into military rule plagued by unlawful killings and mass detentions of protestors, Myanmar writers and artists remain determined to continue their creative work and use their voices to challenge the regime, according to a report by PEN America.