Behrouz Boochani escapes from Papua New Guinea
Sydney PEN president Mark Isaacs interviews former PEN Prisoner of Conscience and Kurdish-Iranian writer, Behrouz Boochani, and Dr Omid Tofighian, tra...
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PEN Voices is a series of interviews relating to PEN International and its continuing efforts to defend freedom of expression and campaign on behalf of writers who have been silenced by persecution or imprisonment. PEN International is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.
Erik Jensen's Fragile Minds
Journalism is at its second crossroads in two decades: not one of means, but of privilege. Listen to the editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media, Erik Jense...
What's Really Happening to Julian Assange
For the 2019 Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN Sydney invited Walkley Award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Quentin Dempster to interview J...
Yang Hengjun: Australian citizen and journalist imprisoned in China
Australian citizen and journalist, Yang Hengjun, was arrested in China on suspicion of espionage in January 2019. Since then he has been imprisoned by...
Two Saudi journalists imprisoned by Australia
When two Saudi journalists flew to Australia on 12 October 2019, the last thing they expected was to be arrested and placed in immigration detention. ...
Melissa Lucashenko - When 'Freedom' Kills: An Aboriginal Viewpoint On Free Speech
Sydney PEN and the University of Technology Sydney hosted 2019 Miles Franklin award-winning novelist Melissa Lucashenko as she delivered a PEN Free Vo...
Finding Voice - Humayun Reza
In this episode of PEN Voices, Bangladeshi poet and journalist Humayun Reza speaks about the challenges some writers face in Australia.Produced by Mic...
Behrouz Boochani - No Friend But The Mountain
In today's episode we hear from PEN Prisoner of Conscience and Kurdish-Iranian writer, Behrouz Boochani, about his new book "No Friend But the Mountai...