Empty Chair for Vladimir Kozlov
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Kazakh journalist Vladimir Kozlov, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International...
Empty Chair for Oleg Sentsov
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Raif Badawi
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Saudi blogger and editor Raif Badawi, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Razan Zaitouneh
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Syrian blogger and human rights activist Razan Zaitouneh, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network...
Empty Chair for Idris Said Aba Arre
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Eritrean writer Idris Said Aba Arre, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Ilham Tohti
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Uyghur writer Ilham Tohti, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International...
Empty Chair for Aslı Ceren Aslan
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Turkish editor Aslı Ceren Aslan, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN...
Empty Chair for Dawit Isaak
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International...
Croatian Day of the Imprisoned Writer poster
Poster created by the Croatian Centre for Day of the Imprisoned Writer in 2011 and the 50th anniversary of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. PEN started the annually...
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...
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...
Shahidul Alam at At Home Everywhere
Photograph of the activist and photographer Shahidul Alam speaking at a conference that was co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Rotterdam...
Hamid's tribute to Chenjerai Hove
Photograph of Abazar A. Bagi Hamid performing at a tribute to Chenjerai Hove, which took place during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN held...
ICORN map
Map showing ICORN cities of refuge across the world in 2019. ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) is an organisation for cities and regions that offer long-term temporary refuge...
Panel at Rotterdam ICORN meeting
Photograph of a panel event taking place during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019 under...
Salil Tripathi and Shahidul Alam
Photograph of Salil Tripathi, on the left, Board member of the English centre (2009-13) and chair of the Writers in Prison Committee (2015-), and the activist and photographer Shahidul...
Panel in Lillehammer ICORN meeting
Photograph of panellists at a conference held during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Lillehammer from 31 May to 2...
Eide, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Torner
Photograph of PEN members attending a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Lillehammer from 31 May to 2 June 2017 under...
Zineb El Rhazoui at joint assembly
Photograph of Zineb El Rhazoui, former columnist at Charlie Hebdo (2011-17), speaking during the joint assembly of a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN and...
Zineb El Rhazoui at ICORN meeting
Photograph of Zineb El Rhazoui, former columnist at Charlie Hebdo (2011-17), speaking during the joint assembly of a meeting co-organised by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN...
Committee in Bruges
Photograph of the committee who drafted the new Regulations and Rules of Procedure for PEN International (1996-98) meeting in Bruges in 1997. From left to right are: Carles Torner,...
Nawzat Shamdin and Basim Mardan
Photograph of panellists at a meeting co-organised by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN and hosted by the Netherlands Centre, which was held in Amsterdam on 26-28...
Oleg Sentsov at the Frontline Club
Photograph of an event held at the Frontline Club in London on 15 November, the day of PEN International's annually observed Day of the Imprisoned Writer, in 2019. At...
Charlie Hebdo tribute
Photograph of John Ralston Saul, president of PEN International (2009-15), on the left, and Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic...
Cathy McCann and Larry Siems
Photograph of Cathy McCann, on the left, former researcher for the Writers in Prison Committee and Writers at Risk Protection Manager (2015-) at PEN International, with Larry Siems, on...
WiPC meeting in Barcelona, 2004
Photograph of delegates at the opening ceremony of a Writers in Prison Conference held in Barcelona on 16-21 May 2004. From left to right are: Carles Torner, executive director...
Antiterrorisme, écrivains et liberté d'éxpression cover by Tàpies
Front cover of a report authored by Siobhan Dowd and presented at Writers in Prison Conference held in Barcelona on 16-21 May 2004, titled Antiterrorism, Writers and Freedom of...
WiPC conference in Kathmandu
Photograph of delegates at a conference of the Writers in Prison Committee held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2000. The delegates who attended this conference were: Diana Ayton-Shenker (American Centre);...
WiPC members in Kathmandu
Photograph of Writers in Prison Committee members in Kathmandu for a WiPC conference held there in 2000. From left to right are: Alexander Tkachenko, founding member and general secretary...
Clark and Whyatt at 6th conference
Photograph of panellists at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Turkish Centre and held in Istanbul on 2-4 March 2006. Karin...
Panel at WiPC's 6th conference
Photograph of panellists at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Turkish Centre and held in Istanbul on 2-4 March 2006. From...
Recital at the 1st WiPC conference
Photograph of a committee member reciting work at the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in...
In Other Words banner
Photograph of a street view showing the banner that was used for the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International Writers in Prison Conference, which was held in Lillehammer...
1st conference of the WiPC
Photograph of the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in 1996. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, then chair of...
Meeting at 1st WiPC conference
Photograph of members at the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in 1996. From second from...
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...
Orhan Pamuk and Sara Whyatt
Photograph of the novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, on the left, and Sara Whyatt, programme director (1990-2013) and interim executive director (2010-11) of PEN International, on the right....
"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...
Clark and Wills in Istanbul
Photograph of members at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was held in Istanbul from 2-4 March 2006. Karin Clark, chair of the WiPC (2004-09),...
Siems and Tkachenko in Istanbul
Photograph of members at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was held in Istanbul from 2-4 March 2006. Larry Siems, director of the American Centre's...
Noma Dumezweni reading Women's Manifesto
Photograph of a conference co-organised by ICORN and PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee that was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019 and titled At Home Everywhere. Here,...
The Ugandan PEN (December 2004)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 3, no. 1 (December 2004): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
Writers in Prison Day Event at the Literaturhaus
Flyer for the Swiss German Centre's annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer event held at the Literaturhaus Zürich on 12 November 2008. The title of this event was lrak...
Elisabeth Wandeler-Deck's press release on Women's Day 2000
Typed press release by Elisabeth Wandeler-Deck titled "Aktion des Internationalen und des Deutschschweizerischen PEN zum Frauentag", created for the Swiss German Centre on International Women's Day, 8 March 2000,...
Folder for San Miguel conferences
Front of a delegate's folder containing documents relating to two of PEN International's conferences: the 4th International Writers in Prison Committee Conference and the 3rd Conference of the Latin...
Event with Anna Politkovskaya
Flyer for an event titled Reporter to Txetxènia: com ser testimoni d'una guerra bruta (A Reporter in Chechnya: how to bear witness in a dirty war), which was held...
Anti-Terrorism, Writers and Freedom of Expression
Photograph of three copies of a report issued by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee titled Anti-Terrorism, Writers and Freedom of Expression. This report, produced in December 2003, was...
Event with Anna Politkovskaya
Photograph of the Russian journalist, writer, and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya, end on the right, participating in a panel event that was organised by the Catalan Centre and...
Teresa Toda at WiPC Conference
Video of a panel talk that was filmed by the Basque Centre in Amsterdam on 27 May 2015. The video shows a talk given by Teresa Toda, Board member...
Teresa Toda's case
Brochure outlining facts surrouding the persecution of Teresa Toda, a Basque journalist and Basque Centre Board member who was imprisoned from 2007 to 2014 for her work on the...
WiPC meeting at the 81st Congress
Photograph taken on the 13 October 2015 during the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) meeting at the 81st PEN International Congress which took place from 13 to 16 October...
PEN and ICORN meeting in Brussels
Photograph of PEN members in Brussels in March 2011. From left to right are: Anders Heger, president of the Norwegian Centre (2007-13), chair of the Norwegian Centre's Writers in...
PEN WiPC and ICORN meeting
Photograph of PEN and International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) members in Krakow in May 2013. From left to right are: Elisabeth Dyvik, standing sideways to the camera, Programme...
Eugene Schoulgin and Anders Heger
Photograph of Eugene Schoulgin, on the left, member of the Norwegian and Swedish Centres, president of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (2000-04), international secretary (2007-10) and vice-president of...
At Home Everywhere conference
Logo for a conference that took place between ICORN and PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019. The title of this...
Writers in Prison Committee work plan
Typed administrative document titled "Archive 33: ICPC Writers in Prison Committee Action Plan Outline", which was created by the Independent Chinese Centre's Writers in Prison Committee, 11 March 2004,...