PEN Belarus Slams Minsk's Force-Down and Arrest of Roman Protasevich
Demanding the detained writer’s release, the Belarusian PEN Centre unites with sister agencies on the freedom to publish. Roman Protasevich. Image: A shot posted July 22, 2018, by Protasevich to his Twitter account A Joint Statement of Eight Organizations As many world capitals and cultural advocacy organizations work to formulate responses, PEN Belarus is, appropriately, among the first out this morning (May 24) with a statement on Sunday’s high-flown interception and arrest of opposition Telegram writer-activist Roman Protasevich. “According to the information available to us,” writ...