I am thankful for Global Coalition for Language Rights, I am really grateful for your recognition. I hope the award will make awareness and help us to save Uyghur language in danger in China

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Ahead of her birthday on 20 May, show your support for imprisoned Uyghur academic Professor Rahile Dawut by sending a message of solidarity to her family through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites .
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#FreeRahile

#FreeRahile and #PENWrites
#FreeUyghurWriters !

Actuellement, un groupe de Chinois, avec une voiture noire, devant l'immeuble de la rescapée de camps Gulbahar Jalilova à Paris, sonne son appartement. Jalilova est terrorisée.

Tursunjan Memet arrested in March 2016. He was prominent blogger and journalist. He was one of bloggers first targeted because of their writings. After being arrested, there is no news about his sentence terms and where he was being held, #SaveUyghurBlog uyghurhjelp.org/2024/05/who-is…

“China’s … Xinjiang — called East Turkestan by Uyghurs — is a essentially a colony that China has occupied for the past 70 years, but before that there has not been any continuous Chinese rule there going back 2,000 years – despite Chinese claims … “ rfa.org/english/news/u…

“𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐲𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞,” Aziz Isa Elkun said.

#Uyghur #Uyghur Language #Uyghur Culture

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Eight years of arbitrary imprisonment. Even people who commit crimes are allowed family visits. What Ekpar said broke me.

Publishers: #PENTranslates is open for submissions until 31 May!

The award helps UK publishers to meet the costs of translating new works into English – while ensuring translators are acknowledged and paid properly for their work.
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#Uyghur poet Aziz Isa Elkun said that no books, apart from translations of #Xi Jinping’s speeches had been published in the Uyghur language since 2018. “Every independent Uyghur bookshop has been closed,” he said. “This is quite simply cultural erosion.”
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Uyghurs Bravely Resist Oppression Through Poetry bitterwinter.org/uyghurs-bravel… As human rights atrocities envelop the globe, pleas not to forget the Uyghurs rang out from exiled poet Aziz Isa Elkun on UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, March 21st. #China

Emet was arrested during a crackdown known as “Hui Tou Kan,” or “Looking Back,” a police officer who works near the Xinjiang’s Health Publishing House in Urumqi, where Emet used to work, told Radio Free Asia. rfa.org/english/news/u…

On #WorldPoetryDay , we think of all the poets who have been harassed, imprisoned, and even killed worldwide. Here's If I Must Die by #RefaatAlareer who wrote the poem weeks before he was killed by an Israeli airstrike in #Gaza . Read our Case List: pen-international.org/news/pen-inter…

The PEN International annual Case List is launched today - it makes for devastating, vital reading. Freedom of expression is under threat globally - human rights are being ignored & eroded. Please consider joining English PEN to support writers in times of risk & to fight for your rights

On #WorldPoetryDay - We must unite to defend the fundamental principle of freedom of expression,for none should face persecution merely for expressing themselves through poetry. The international community must hold #China accountable for its genocidal campaign against the Uyghurs

𝐖𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐬

'A Trinity of Freedoms at Risk: Expression, Publishing, and Reading'

'Uyghur Poetry and Cultural Erasure'.

#Uyghurs
#LBF24

Our last Main Stage session #LBF24 is at 14:30! Our speakers will be discuss whether freedom of expression, publishing and reading are at risk

PEN International / Tanja Tuma
Nicholas Poole / CILIP
Aziz Isa Elkun / University of London
Booksellers Association
The Guardian

EVENT: Join us on Thurs, 21 March at 1pm GMT for the launch of our Case List 2023/24, War, Censorship, and Persecution, with panellists Thida, Fatena Al-Ghorra, tania bruguera, and Marko Vidojković. Moderated by Ege Dündar. Register now: pen-international.org/key-dates/war-… Aurélia Dondo

Thanks for joining our special event commemorating 75 years of Human Rights! Authors from around the world read their favorite article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and shared what it means to them. Let's #Standup4HumanRights together! #LBF24