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#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional release.
Read our joint statement ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/news/china-p...
#FreeGuiMinhai
Every time we recall this episode and others like it, we must renew our commitment to the right of free expression.
15.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This means that what happened eight years ago must not be allowed to die as well. Yet this should not be merely a remembrance or commemoration; otherwise, we would be disrespecting the work and sacrifice of Daphne and of other journalists who have gone through the same tragedy.
15.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It probably had to be this dreadful event that made us come to our senses and showed us that when we say “the truth hurts,” we might mean two things: it troubles those whose sins are being exposed, and it can literally hurt those, like Daphne, who end up giving their lives to deliver it.
15.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0—but not in the interest of the corrupt.
Most likely, before the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, we hardly paid attention to the dangers that freedom of information and expression might carry.
Eight years ago, we were shaken by a tragedy that had no precedent in Malta. Eight years ago, someone decided to carry out an assassination on a person who chose, instead of living a comfortable life, to risk her own safety in order to expose facts in the public interest
15.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1We appeal to our government and other EU leaders to stop their bigotry and duplicity and hold Israel to account for the gravest crimes against humanity.
12.08.2025 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Our governments and our representatives can no longer speak of Gaza and Palestine unless they follow up with the most severe sanctioning of Israel as it commits genocide on live TV.
12.08.2025 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0In the last 22 months and before, Israel has behaved like a rogue state with total impunity, wiping out all of Gaza's universities, killing over 230 journalists, destroying hospitals and targeting civilians on a daily basis.
12.08.2025 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The latest targeted assassination of Palestinian journalists by Israel in Gaza is horrifying confirmation of a long-standing, genocidal policy aimed at wiping out Palestinian life and culture.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
Family statement:
1️⃣ The criminal court in Malta today has sentenced car bomb suppliers Robert Agius and Jamie Vella to life imprisonment and other penalties for their role in Daphne’s murder on 16 October 2017.
#DaphneCaruanaGalizia
Photo: Pippa Zammit Cutajar
PEN Malta stands with Maltese and Malta-based writers, artists, academics & activists in calling out European Parliament Roberta Metsola's silence on Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
We endorse this powerful open letter: openlettertorobertametsola.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/5/
The letter condemns Metsola’s complicity through silence and her “cynical fence-sitting” in the face of what UN experts, Amnesty, HRW and the ICC have identified as a genocidal campaign in Gaza.
newsbook.com.mt/en/metsola-c...
“Dr Metsola, you have failed utterly at this critical moment to speak out for what is right as a man-made catastrophe unfolded in our neighbourhood, enabled by European policies and European weapons.”
📄article via @thetimesofmalta.bsky.social:
timesofmalta.com/article/we-a...
“With every lost opportunity to speak out, you have chosen to look away from the devastating effect of each sniper's bullet, each missile blasting a playground to bits, or a hospital, an ambulance, a crowd of desperate people seeking food and refuge.”
05.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
PEN Malta stands with Maltese and Malta-based writers, artists, academics & activists in calling out European Parliament Roberta Metsola's silence on Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
We endorse this powerful open letter: openlettertorobertametsola.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/5/
Amid a lack of detail on how a US-Israeli plan for Gaza aid will work, what little information there is appears so problematic that major humanitarian groups have refused to take part.
17.05.2025 11:08 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We're very concerned by the UK Home Office's refusal to grant a visa to PEN Translates award-winner Ibrahima Balde. This raises serious concerns for artistic freedom and exchange – we urge them to reconsider this decision.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At #PENWorldVoices, Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil and Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail delved into the urgency of documenting personal and collective experiences, and how the act of writing both engenders change and urges us towards the future. Read more: pen.org/2025-pen-wor...
17.05.2025 16:20 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
#Trump has aggressively used legal action to silence unfavorable coverage — a move that’s extremely rare for a sitting U.S. president. These are not normal times for American press freedoms🗞️
Read more about key cases in CPJ’s special report “Alarm bells": cpj.org?p=473694
We joined civil society in marking the Palestinian Nakba and in urging our government and the EU to stop Israel's genocoide of Palestinians
www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/nationa...
Since his arrest in 2018, Galal El-Behairy has been a focus of our advocacy and campaigning.
Galal’s case remains emblematic of Egypt’s crackdown on artistic expression.
Find out more and take action to support his freedom: www.pen-international.org/cases/galal-...
Check out PEN Malta's May newsletter – find out more about the Open Mic on Manoel Island, standing up to unchecked development, and how you can raise your voice.
Manoel Island should be for everyone, not for the greedy trying to grab our country with enabling politicians.
In-Newsletter ta' PEN Malta għal Mejju - niżżilha u ssib iżjed informazzjoni dwar il-Palk Ħieles fuq Manoel Island kontra l-iżivlupp bla kontroll u kif tista' ssemma' leħnek.
Manoel Island tista' tkun post fejn ingawdu lkoll, kontra r-regħba ta' min irid jaħtaf 'il pajjiżna.
Ingħaqad magħna għall-Palk Ħieles f'lejla li tiċċelebra l-libertà tal-espressjoni, il-komunità u l-kreattività fl-arja miftuħa.
Organizzat minn PEN Malta mal-kampanja "Manoel Island: Post Għalina".
- 22 ta’ Mejju 2025
- 6:00 PM
- Manoel Island
Irreġistra hawn:
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5/ Insejħu lill-awtoritajiet Maltin biex jaġixxu b’kuraġġ u prinċipju: ħallu lill-Conscience tidħol fil-port, offru kenn u kkundannaw dan l-attakk.
Is-silenzju jfisser kompliċità.
#LetTheShipIn #Gaza
4/ Issa, saħansitra vapur li qed iġorr għajnuna umanitarja u tama qed jiġi miċħud il-kenn mill-gvern tagħna stess, wara attakk fuq ċivili fiż-żona ta’ responsabbiltà ta’ Malta u f'territorju Ewropew.
04.05.2025 06:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 03/ Kittieba, poeti, ġurnalisti u akkademiċi—il-kollegi tagħna fil-kelma u fil-ħsieb—inqatlu b’impunità.
04.05.2025 06:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 02/ Gaża saret ċimiterju tal-letteratura, tal-edukazzjoni u tal-ħajja. L-iskejjel, l-universitajiet, il-libreriji u l-istituzzjonijiet kulturali tagħha ġew meqruda.
04.05.2025 06:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/ PEN Malta tesprimi solidarjetà mal-poplu ta’ Gaża u tikkundanna r-rifjut tal-gvern Malti li joffri għajnuna lill-vapur umanitarju Conscience, li tħalla bejn sema u ilma wara attakk mill-ajru li hu rrappurtat li twettaq mill-Iżrael.
www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/nationa...
