PEN Perth

PerthAustralia
Written By Simon Nielsen

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PEN Perth is a non-profit organisation fighting for human rights and freedom of speech.

 

Location: Perth, Australia

Contact person: Rania Ghandour

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Located on Whadjuk land in Perth, Western Australia, PEN Perth is one chapter of PEN International, a non-profit organisation working at the intersection of writing and politics. PEN International was founded in London in 1921 and now has 150 centres around the world.

PEN Perth is active on local and international issues, including questions of Indigenous incarceration, refugee detention and a free press. In particular, we campaign for the release of wrongfully imprisoned writers and advocate for the responsible freedom of expression.

PEN Perth aims to raise the consciousness of the public and encourage a world where writers are free to express themselves, responsibly and respectfully.

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Out Of Sight
Out Of Sight

Poet and literary scholar, Dennis Haskell, examines a crucial sense. He drifts into a yellow haze and reports lucidly from a world of unseeing.

Sudan Reading
Sudan Reading

On Tuesday 23 November PEN Perth held a reading to protest the military coup which took place on 25 October in Sudan. Afeif Ismail spoke about the coup and about the severe limitations involved in the deal between the military and the civilian Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok reached the day before the reading. The deal saw the release of some political prisoners, but far from all, and far from all writers.

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