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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.