Shafak, Whyatt, Leedom-Ackerman
Photograph of PEN members at a meeting held before the 2007 Gathering in Istanbul for Freedom of Expression. From left to right are: the British-Turkish writer Elif Shafak, who...
Şanar Yurdatapan at Istanbul University rally
Photograph of the Turkish journalist Şanar Yurdatapan speaking at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. Standing just behind Yurdatapan is Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary...
Leedom-Ackerman at Istanbul Conference
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, speaking on the panel of the Initiative for Freedom of Expression during a conference at the...
Rally at Istanbul University
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, speaking at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. To Leedom-Ackerman's left...
PEN members at Istanbul University rally
Photograph of PEN members at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. Among them are: Alexander Tkachenko, founding member and general secretary of the Russian...
Hasenkeyf before the floods
Photograph of the ancient town of Hasenkeyf in Turkey in 2005. In this year a delegation from PEN International visted Turkey for the International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural...
Writers and PEN members in Hasenkeyf
Photograph of PEN members with Kurdish and Turkish writers gathered in the ancient town of Hasenkeyf, Turkey, in March 2005. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of...
PEN members in Hasenkeyf
Photograph of members from PEN International and the Kurdish and Turkish Centres gathered in the ancient town of Hasenkeyf, Turkey, in March 2005. The three delegates standing at the...
Football card for Iran
A 'Football Card' designed by PEN International to raise awareness of freedom of the word in Iran. Inspired by the FIFA World Cup held in Brazil in 2014, PEN...
Spender and Leedom-Ackermann in Turkey
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, on the left, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, with Jane Spender, on the right, programme director at PEN International (1997-2009) and...
Parkhomenko and Azhgihina's report of free speech in Lviv
Photograph of Sergey Parkhomenko, member of the Moscow Centre, and Nadezhda Azhgihina, director of the Moscow Centre, presenting the report Russia's Strident Stifling of Free Speech during the 83rd...
Panel on freedom of expression at the 80th Congress
Photograph taken during a panel on the freedom of expression in the context of the Russian aggression of Crimea and the Donbass, which took place during the 80th PEN...
7th WiPC meeting in Glasgow
Photograph of members of the Writers in Prison Committee gathered for their 7th conference, which was held in Glasgow from 3-6 April 2008. The pages that the members can...
Global Forum for Free Expression
Photograph of members of the Writers in Prison Committee gathered for the Global Forum for Free Expression, which also acted as the WiPC's 8th annual conference, that took place...
"Freedom of Expression in Turkey" conference
Photograph of speakers at a panel event on “Freedom of Expression in Turkey Today”, which was held during the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee. From left...
Submission to UN Human Rights Office
Electronically typed submission from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 21 May 2018, ff. 8. This submission was created...
Protesting Vietnamese activists' sentences
Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 6 April 2018; heading: «Letter of Protest Condemning Human Right Violations in Vietnam in light of the Recent Trial...
Protesting new cyber security law
Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 12 June 2018; heading: «Letter of Objection: Protesting Vietnam’s New Cyber Security Law Granting Unlimited Powers to Infringe on...
Protesting Chinese lease of Vietnamese territory
Electronically typed call to action from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Oviedo, 6 June 2018, in bulletin HS: 2018/TB/KT03, ff....
Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong)
Photograph of Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Upon becoming president, Lloyd Duong, who left Vietnam as a refugee when he was a...
Postcards supporting Ukrainian writers
Collection of flyers (called 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) created by the Ukrainian Centre in support of four cases of persecuted Ukrainian writers: Mykola Semena, Oleg Sentsov, Roman Suschenko, and...
Seyhmus Diken with Ahmed Arif sculpture
Photograph of Seyhmus Diken, member of the Turkish Centre, standing beside the newly renovated sculpture of the Kurdish poet Ahmed Arif. This bust was destroyed in 2017 - and...
Peace Conference in Diyarbakır
Photograph of panellists at the PEN 2016 Peace Conference in Diyarbakır, which was held on 25 September 2016 in Turkish, Kurdish and English. From left to right are: Halil...
PEN International press conference in Istanbul
Photograph of PEN International delegates at a press conference held in Istanbul on 15 November 2012. From left to right are: Eugene Schoulgin, president of the Writers in Prison...
Sara Whyatt
Photograph of Sara Whyatt, PEN International’s programme director (1990-2013), interim executive director (2010-11), and deputy director (2011-2013). Whyatt headed PEN International’s freedom of expression programme for over twenty years,...
For Freedom and Equality book
Front cover of a book published by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15...
Sydney PEN Magazine May 2020
Cover of Sydney PEN Magazine, May 2012. This particular edition of Sydney PEN Magazine - the Sydney Centre's biannual publication - contained articles including Craig Reucassel's essay on...
Sydney PEN Magazine May 2019
Cover of Sydney PEN Magazine, May 2019. The title and theme of this particular edition of Sydney PEN Magazine - the Sydney Centre's biannual publication - was "Free Voices:...
Conference on Freedom of Expression in Russia
Flyer for a conference titled Libertà d’espressione dall’Unione Sovietica alla Russia. Tempo di una nuova dissidenza ? which was organised by the Swiss Italian and Reto-Romansh Centre in collaboration...
"Mea Culpa" statement
Statement issued by the Chilean Centre in April 2016 titled 'Centro PEN Chile: Declaración del Directorio', f. 1. This statement from the Chilean Centre's Board reaffirms that the Centre's...
Fearful Silence book
Copy of Rankin, Evan and de Caires, Brendan. Fearful Silence: the chill on India's public sphere. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, PEN International, 2016. This book investigates the...
Journalism in the shadow of Impunity book
Copy of Owens, Kaitlin. Honduras: Journalism in the shadow of Impunity. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, PEN International, 2014. This book was the result of joint research conducted...
Imposing Silence book
Copy of Tang, Amy; Rankin, Evan; de Caires, Brendan; and Beesley, Drew. Imposing Silence: The use of India's Laws to suppress Free Speech. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto,...
Corruption, Impunity, Silence book
Copy of Gibbons, Cara and Spratt, Beth. Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, 2011. This book examines the life-threatening circumstances journalists...
Report sent to Gloria Guardia
Report written by Melita del Carpio in 2014 titled 'Informe a Gloria Guardia: Cambios en el PEN Bolivia para un nuevo tiempo', ff. 4. In this report del Carpio,...
Letter from Latin American Centres to Rafael Correa
Draft of an electronically typed open letter sent by seven PEN Centre presidents to Rafael Correa, 22 February 2012, ff. 2. In this letter the presidents of seven Latin...
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo
Flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN's campaigns) from one of the American Centre's 2019 campaigns, which called for the release of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who are...
Online Harassment Field Manual
Printed cover of PEN American Center. Online Harassment Field Manual - PEN America. New York: PEN America, 20 April 2018. https://onlineharassmentfieldmanual.pen.org/. This printed page represents the front cover...
Press Freedom Incentive Fund
Flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN's campaigns) used during the American Centre's pilot 2017-18 Press Freedom Incentive Fund, which aimed to rally citizen activism in order to counter the...
Oleg Sentsov's case
Front of a flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN's campaigns) used during one of the American Centre's 2018 campaigns, which called for the release of Ukranian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov,...
An invitation to Writer's Block
Invitation to a literary event organised by the American Centre that celebrated the opening of an art installation titled Writer's Block, which was created by American artist Sheryl Oring...
Liberty Denied by Donna A. Demac
Front cover of Demac, Donna A. Liberty Denied: The Current Rise of Censorship in America. 1st ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. This book, which was first published...
The Cosmopolitanism of the P.E.N. article
Copy of Wadia, Sophia, ed. "The Cosmopolitanism of the P.E.N.," The Indian P.E.N. 2, no. 8 (1 August 1936): 1. This article from The Indian P.E.N., the All-India Centre's...
Greeting card by Jacques Goldstyn
Illustrated greeting card by the Quebecois author and illustrator Jacques Goldstyn in which he expresses a wish, on behalf of the Quebecois Centre, that writers would be freer to...
Resolution published during 'The Emergency'
Copy of "P.E.N. In the Emergency," The Indian P.E.N. 56, no. 7-9 (1995): 30. This supplement from The Indian P.E.N. contains a reprint of a resolution that emerged as...
Free Speech article in The Indian P.E.N.
Copy of Wadia, Sophia, ed. "The P.E.N. Stands for Free Speech," The Indian P.E.N. 6, no. 12 (1 December 1940): 1. In this article, published in the All-India Centre's...
The All India Centre's emergency resolution
Resolution passed at an emergency meeting of the All-India Centre's executive committee that was held in Mumbai on 23 April 1971, f. 1. This resolution states the All-India Centre's...
Jornada por la Libertad de Expresión 2018
Photograph taken during the Jornada por la Libertad de Expresión, an event organised by the Puerto Rican Centre that took place at the EDP University in San Juan on...
Veronica Brady comments media convergence
Typed letter from Veronica Brady to Ian Taylor, Perth, Australia, 14 September 1990; f. 1. In this letter, Veronica Brady, president of the Perth Centre, comments the closure of...
Justice David Malcolm Freedom to Write lecture
Flyer for the annual Freedom to Write Lecture, given here by Justice David Malcolm and hosted at the Perth Technical College by the Perth Centre.
Human rights and free expression conference
Photograph of the audience at a conference titled Por la Libertad de Expresión y los Derechos Humanos, which took place in Asunción on 2 November 2017 and was held...
Empty chair at human rights conference
An empty chair set with a white lily and crucifix as an altar to commemorate the 25th year since the death of sixteen journalists in Paraguay. This altar was...
PEN members at human rights conference
Photograph of Paraguayan Centre members gathered for a conference titled Por la Libertad de Expresión y los Derechos Humanos, which took place in Asunción on 2 November 2017 and...
Open statement from the Palestinian Centre
Electronically typed statement issued by the Palestine Centre , f. 1. In this public statement the Palestinian Centre condemns the raiding of a Palestinian television studio in East Jerusalem...
Norwegian Centre meeting the Dalai Lama
Photograph of a delegation from the Norwegian Centre meeting with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who is seated second from the left. With the Dalai Lama, from left...
Interview with Folu Agoi
Video of an interview with Folu Agoi filmed by the Nigerian Centre on 21 March 2019 at the Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED) in Epe. In this...
Appeal from the Nicaraguan Centre
Video of Nicaraguan Centre members delivering an appeal for support in Managua on 18 June 2018. In this video members from the Nicaraguan Centre address fellow PEN members across...
Panel at Libertad Bajo Fianza conference
Photograph of panel speakers at a conference titled Libertad Bajo Fianza, which took place at the Centro Cultural Pablo Antonio Cuadra (PAC) at the Librería Hispamer in Managua on...
Invitation to Libertad de Expresión conference
Invitation to a conference titled Libertad de Expresión, which took place at The University of Commercial Sciences (UCC) in Managua on 8 September 2013. This event was organised by...
Libertad Bajo Fianza conference
Flyer for a conference titled Libertad Bajo Fianza, which took place at the Centro Cultural Pablo Antonio Cuadra (PAC) at Librería Hispamer in Managua on 8 September 2015. This...
Speakers at ¿A Quien Sirven Los Medios?
Photograph of speakers at an event titled ¿A Quien Sirven Los Medios?, which took place at the Centro Cultural Pablo Antonio Cuadra (PAC) at the Librería Hispamer on 1...
¿A Quien Sirven Los Medios? event
Poster for an event titled ¿A Quien Sirven Los Medios?, which took place at the Centro Cultural Pablo Antonio Cuadra (PAC) at the Librería Hispamer on 1 March -...
Literatura y Libertad event at UCA
Invitation to a conference titled ¿Tiene la Juventud Dónde Reclinar La Cabeza? Literatura y Libertad, which took place at the Central American University (UCA) in Managua on 3 August...
Moe Yan Naing and his Wife
Photograph of Moe Yan Naing and his wife, Daw Tu Tu, talking at an event that had been organised on International Women Day 2019, on 8 March, by the...
Demonstration against Runet
Photograph of members of the Moscow Centre protesting against Runet, an online network autonomous from the Internet and under Russian regulations. From left to right: photojournalist Victoria Ivleva; unknown;...
Moscow Centre supporting Oleg Sentsov
Photograph of members of the Moscow Centre's Board showing their support for the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested on 11 May 2014 under charges of terrorism and...
Campaign for Alexey Malobrodsky
Photograph of a demonstrator holding a sign asking for the liberation of Alexey Malobrodsky, a Russian theatre producer who was arrested in June 2017 under charges of fraud as...
European Parliament support Sentsov
Photograph of members of the European Parliament showing their support for Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested on 11 May 2014 under charges of terrorism and sentenced to...
Demonstrators at the Embassy of Uzbekistan
Photograph of demonstrators in front of the Embassy of Uzbekistan, in Moscow. This demonstration, which took place on 2 April 2012, was organised by Russian photojournalist Victoria Ivleva, second...
Demonstration for Oleg Sentsov
Photograph of Alexander Podrabinek, Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist, interviewing a participant during a demonstration held by the Moscow Centre on 21 August 2018 in Moscow. The...
Demonstrator advocating for Oleg Sentsov
Photograph of a demonstrator speaking with a passerby during a demonstration held by the Moscow Centre, on 21 August 2018, in Moscow. The demonstrators were asking for the liberation...
Cegerxwîn Cultural Centre
Photograph of workers installing the name of the Cegerxwîn Kültür Merkezi (Cegerxwîn Cultural Centre) on the Centre's building in Diyarbakir-Amed in 2014. This Centre was named after the Kurdish...
Peace Conference in Diyarbakır-Amed
Photograph of panellists at the PEN 2016 Peace Conference in Diyarbakır-Amed, which was held on 25 September in Turkish, Kurdish and English. From left to right are: Halil Ibrahim...
Eugene Schoulgin at Peace Conference
Photograph of Eugene Schoulgin, member of the Norwegian and Swedish Centres, president of the Writers in Prison Committee (2000-04), international secretary (2007-10), and vice-president of PEN International, speaking at...
Kurdish Centre cabinets after attack
Photograph wall cabinets at the Kurdish Centre's offices, which have been broken open and raided. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were...
Raided wall cabinets at Kurdish Centre
Photograph wall cabinets at the Kurdish Centre's offices, which have been broken open and raided. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were...
Damaged documents at the Kurdish Centre
Photograph of scattered files and documents on the floor of the Kurdish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked...
Scattered files and overturned desks
Photograph of scattered files and overturned furniture on the floor of the Kurdish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were...
Damaged furniture at Kurdish Centre
Photograph of damaged cabinets and overturned furniture in the Kurdish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided....
Damaged cabinets at Kurdish Centre
Photograph of raided cabinets and overturned furniture in the Kurdish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided....
Destruction in Kurdish Centre offices
Photograph of damaged cabinets and desks in the Kudish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided. This...
Damaged interiors of Kurdish Centre
Photograph of the damaged interior room of the Kurdish Centre, showing fire damage to furniture and walls. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur...
Kurdish Centre stairwell and doorway
Photograph of the stairwell at the Kurdish Centre looking down onto a shattered door at the entrance. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur...
Raided inner room of Kurdish Centre
Photograph of the raided and damaged interior room of the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir, were attacked and raided....
Fire damage at Kurdish Centre
Photograph of the raided and damaged interior room of the Kurdish Centre, showing fire damage to its benches. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in...
Destroyed office at Kurdish Centre
Photograph of the raided and damaged interior room of the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided....
Kurdish Centre's shattered entrance
Photograph of the Kurdish Centre's shattered entrance door beneath the Centre's name plaque. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and...
Attack on the Kurdish Centre
Photograph of the Kurdish Centre's damaged offices, showing a shattered doorway above and blown out windows below. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur...
Broken windows and sculpture
Photograph of a damaged sculpture and broken windows outside the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided....
Kurdish Centre courtyard after attack
Photograph of the courtyard outside the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided. This took place during...
Damaged sculptures outside Kurdish Centre
Photograph of two damaged sculptures and a broken instrument lying in the courtyard of the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur...
Empty Chair demonstration
Photograph of protesters at an 'Empty Chair' demonstration that was organised by the Latvian Centre and held on 1 February 2019 in front of the Russian Embassy in Riga....
Letter from ICPC to the Chinese Centre
Electronically typed letter from the Independent Chinese Centre to the Chinese Centre, , 7 April 2004; heading: «Archive 37: ICPC Letter to China PEN Centre, 2004-04-07», f. 1....
Für Das Wort Campaign
Flyer used in campaign that was organised by the German Centre in collaboration with Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and Reporters Without Borders in 2016. This campaign called upon The...
Freedom of the Press in Turkey event
Photograph of German Centre members and associates at a panel event that took place during the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2018. From left to right are: Regula Venske, president...
Debate at Prague Congress
Photograph of PEN members at a panel debate titled Where Tolerance Ends And Indifference Begins, which was held on 12 November 1994 in Prague. This debate was led by...
Declaration from the Latin American Centres
Document titled "Declararación final de los Delegados assistentes", which was created at a meeting held between Latin American PEN Centres in 2000, f. 1. This meeting, the first to...
Pula Book Fair 2018
Poster created by the Croatian Centre to promote the 21st Pula Book Fair in Pula, Croatia, which was titled Otok, Geto, Azil (Island, Ghetto, Asylum). This fair was held...
Ralston Saul at Hall World Literature Festival
Photograph of John Ralston Saul, on the right, president of the Canadian Centre (1990-92) and president of PEN International (2009-15), speaking at the Hall World Literature Festival. At this...