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Liesl Gerntholtz, director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center. Photo: PEN America
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26 July 2022
PEN America condemns junta executions
Maung Thar Cho. Photo: Myanmar Now
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15 April 2022
Myanmar third largest jailer of writers in the...
Myanmar writers this year feature prominently in PEN America’s annual Freedom to Write...
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18 December 2021
Myanmar creative artists resist violent military...
Nearly a year into military rule plagued by unlawful killings and mass detentions of...
(File) Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone (C) talks to media while being escorted by police as he leaves the court after his trial hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, 02 July 2018. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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24 April 2019
Supreme Court’s decision to uphold convictions of...
The decision of Myanmar’s Supreme Court to uphold the convictions and 7-year prison...
Reuters journalist Wa Lone (C-L), 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo (C-R), 28, sit in the police truck as they leave the court after the verdict has postponed at Insein township court, Yangon, Myanmar, 27 August 2018. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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12 January 2019
PEN says court decision on Reuters journalists ‘a...
NGO PEN America has expressed its alarm over the High Court decision to uphold the...
Chief reporter of Eleven media Phyo Wai Win (L) gestures as he arrives at Tamwe township police station for testimonials, Yangon, Myanmar, 10 October 2018. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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13 October 2018
PEN calls for release of arrested Eleven Media...
PEN America responded to the arrest of three journalists from the Eleven Media Group in...