PEN International

PEN International has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in November 2021. The social media accounts linked to from PEN International are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • Bluesky Besides social media accounts, peninternational has populated their site with: • Galal EL-BEHAIRY — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • The Poetry of Freedom: Honouring Federico García Lorca Tickets, Wednesday 29 July • 3 PM - 4 PM UTC | Eventbrite • All Campaigns • Become a Friend of PEN International | Support Free Expression and Literature — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Statements & Latest News • Gaza Collection — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • China: Authorities must release arbitrarily detained human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng at the end of his sentence and ensure his full freedom — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • WiPC — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • 25 Years On, 12 Writers and Journalists Remain Disappeared in Eritrea — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • World Poetry Day 2026: Take Action for Duannis León Taboada (Cuba) — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Iran: PEN International calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities that undermine international peace and security law — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • China: PEN International condemns the sentencing of writer and PEN member Zan Aizong to three years in prison — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Press freedom report: increasingly hostile environment for journalism in Europe — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Careers at PEN International: Advocate for Literature and Free Expression — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • International: Over 80 civil society organisations call for fair elections at UN Committee — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • China – Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison in a devastating blow to freedom of expression — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Ukraine: Volodymyr Yermolenko on Life During the War | Walls of Life — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • The Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Guatemala: PEN International welcomes the release of Jose Rubén Zamora to house arrest, calls for all charges to be dropped — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Türkiye: Release Furkan Karabay from house arrest — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Myanmar: Five years after the coup, expression remains under attack — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Cuba: The unjust convictions against José Gabriel Barrenechea Chávez and rapper Nando OBDC must be overturned — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Georgia: UN submission highlights ruthless crackdown on fundamental rights — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Egypt: Poet Ahmed Douma arrested for speaking up against human rights violations in prisons — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Iran: Authorities must end brutal crackdown on protests and internet shutdowns — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Venezuela: Following the release of five journalists, imprisoned journalist Rory Branker must also be freed — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • ​Venezuela: PEN International calls for urgent guarantees for press freedom — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • 6th Indigenous and Minoritised Languages Videopoems Marathon — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • The Invisible Child - Civil Society Programme — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Iran: authorities must release writer and Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi immediately and ensure her safety — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • PEACE IS A VERB; PEACE IS A MUST; PEACE NOW! A statement by the Writers for Peace Committee — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Lenguas Vivas — A project rooted in linguistic rights, literary freedom, and regional collaboration • Maaza Mengiste to Rory Branker • Lauren Groff to Mohamed Tadjadit • Mexico: PEN International and CANIEM form strategic partnership to uphold publishing and reading — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • India: PEN International joins call for a police investigation into death threats against journalist and writer, Rana Ayyub — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Malaysia-Thailand: Australian writer Murray Hunter targeted in act of transnational repression — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Honduras: Serious international concern over the climate of harassment against the press in Honduras — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Georgia: Latest wave of arrests condemned — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Algeria: Joint statement demands immediate release of Algerian Hirak poet Mohamed Tadjadit risking a death penalty sentence ahead of November 11 hearing — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Türkiye: PEN member Merdan Yanardağ held on espionage charges — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Day of the Dead 2025: PEN International, Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, and PEN Centres honour journalists killed in Mexico — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Belarus: UN submission highlights brutal crackdown on cultural rights — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Critical Junctures: PEN International’s report exposes threats to artistic expression in Poland — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Türkiye: Journalists reporting LGBTQ+ issues risk criminalisation — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • OPT/Israel: Gaza ceasefire must be followed by steps to ensure accountability and the right to self-determination for Palestinians — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Belonging Matters — A Call to Action for the Publishing and Book Sector — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025 — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Women Writers Committee— PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Support literary freedom today • DAY OF THE DEAD 2025: No one Guaranteed Their Saftey • Unbound Voices: Samira Mohyeddin in Conversation with PEN International — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Congress — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Resolutions to defend free expression, gender diversity, human rights, and climate justice — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk joins PEN International leadership as Vice President — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • PEN International calls on govt to halt mass deportations of Afghans from Pakistan • Doha International Book Fair: First time, 11 Palestinian publishers taking part • War on Writers: Honoring Palestinian Writers Lost in Gaza Conflict — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • El Salvador: PEN International Calls on Salvadoran Authorities to End Persecution of Journalists and Editors — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • World Press Freedom Day 2025: Take Action for José Gabriel Barrenechea (Cuba) — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Egypt: PEN International sounds the alarm over Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s worsening health in prison — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • PEN International Young Writers Committee: A New Chapter in Youth Engagement — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • What’s Happening to Young Dissidents in Türkiye Echoes Everywhere — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Sudan: PEN International joins calls to end atrocities in Darfur — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Vietnam and China: Grave concern over reports of Tibetan writer’s suspicious death in custody — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • The Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee Video Poem Marathon • Egypt: Authorities must end persecution of Poet Ahmed Douma over his peaceful expression — PEN International • SIGN OUR PROOF OF LIFE PETITION • A Guide to Defending Writers at Risk: PEN International’s campaigning handbook — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Writers Under Siege: Defying Silence - PEN International Case List 2026 — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • About Our Work • China-Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai’s son calls for his father’s release at the UN Human Rights Council — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • Imagine Appeal – Support Persecuted Writers Worldwide | PEN International — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • World Press Freedom Day 2026 • Newsletter Sign Up — Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide • www.pen-international.org • PEN International and COACOA Join Forces to Amplify Literary Voices and Promote Freedom of Expression — PEN International • Roundtable Discussion on Language, Literature and Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century • TAKE THE PLEDGE: 75 Years of Human Rights and Freedom of Expression