The URUGUAY PEN Center publishes below for subscribers and followers, the following
Report prepared by International PEN in an effort to denounce the multiple attacks
suffered by writers committed to truth and freedom of expression.

PEN International report documents 115 cases of writers “facing harassment, detention, violence and even death, all over the world”.

This document is made up of a brief introduction that recognizes the valuable work of writers in authoritarian contexts and the risk they face for exercising their right to free expression and their right to defend it. At the end of this introduction you will find a link that will take you to a PDF with the complete 94-page report that includes the list of the 115 cases that correspond to the year 2022.

Following this link, PEN International presents a global analysis of the situation where it breaks down, region by region, the state of the issue of freedom of expression and the imprisonment or persecution of writers in Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Central Asia, and the Near East.

PEN International held a live event on March 21 to launch this report » Impunity Reigns – Writers Resist: PEN International Case List 2022”, which featured four speakers who spoke about the issues and writers featured in the 2022 Case List. The speakers were Ma Thida , Chair of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee and former President of PEN Myanmar, the philosopher, journalist and President of PEN Ukraine Volodymyr Yermolenko , the writer Gioconda Belli, and the Egyptian novelist and activist Ahdaf Soueif. You can see the event in detail on the PEN International Facebook page by clicking here .

We invite you to read the aforementioned full PEN International report clicking here.