Application form for those interested in joining PEN Eritrea membership. Please download by clicking on the link and fill the membership form. Please send the filled form to our email address below: peneritrea@gmail.com. « GO BACK
Pen International calls for the release of Amanuel Asrat on World Poetry day. World Poetry Day 2016: Take Action for Amanuel Asrat « GO BACK
An anonymous whistleblower claims to have new proof of human rights abuses, galvanising opposition online. (published in the Guardian) Facebook page vows to lift the lid on Eritrea’s secret reign of terror By Abraham T. Zere. « GO BACK
why jail a poet? Because as the poet Abdellatif Laâbi explains, a poet is a “statistician of pain” and “fool of hope.” – Abraham Zere’s article about the dire repression in the media and arts in Eritrea. Poets are targeted because…
Aaron Berhane* Whenever I walk on the streets of Toronto from the subway station to where I work, I encounter people who distribute a free copy of the Metro newspaper. I don’t know whether it’s ingrained in my mind or my memory gets refreshed every day but I remember Setit— the first newspaper I co-founded
In the lead-up to International Mother Language Day 2016 (21 February) PEN is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of writer Idris Said Aba Arre. On Mother Language Day call on Eritrea to free Idris Said Aba Arre « GO BACK
translated by Cristina Viti AT LAMPEDUSA On the third of October a boat arrived at Lampedusa carrying 518 people. Survivors of a ferocious dictatorship and of an insidious crossing in the dead of night, from that big raft they saw the lights of the promised land. And thinking their suffering was over, they raised a
By Staff Eritrean award-winning poet and Zemen’s former editor-in-chief, Amanuel Asrat has received Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards for Freedom of Expression in absentee at the opening night of Writers Unlimited Winter Nights at The Hague, on January 14, 2016. The two co-recipients of the award are Turkish journalist and filmmaker Can Dündar and Egyptian writer, Omar
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