Photograph of Martxelo Otamendi, former director of the Basque newspaper Egunkaria and a PEN main case, at a meeting between civil society organisations that was held in Barcelona in 2004. Standing on the right of Otamendi are Joan Smith, former chair of the English Centre’s Writers in Prison Committee, and Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1996-2002).