Truth-Telling And Its Dire Consequences: PEN America Hosts Conversation with Writers Targeted by Authoritarians Around the Globe
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.”
Source: pen.org