Ma Thida

China-Hong Kong: PEN International joins letter to UK Prime Minister to meet with Jimmy Lai’s son Sebastien — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide 24 June 2025: Today, PEN International has joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF), PEN Centres and other organisations in a joint letter sent to the UK’s Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, requesting...

#HongKong: On the 4th anniversary of Apple Daily's forced closure, we join international partners urging the UK Prime Minister to meet with Sebastien Lai, son of jailed writer & Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai.

#FreeJimmyLai

Read our joint letter 🔽

www.pen-international.org/news/china-h...

China-Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai’s son calls for his father’s release at the UN Human Rights Council — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide 18 June 2025: Today, Jimmy Lai’s son, Sebastien Lai, addressed the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) as a representative of PEN International during an Interactive Dialogue...

#China: Today, Sebastien Lai, son of #HongKong writer and media publisher #JimmyLai, addressed the UN Human Rights Council as a representative of PEN International and called for his father's release.

Watch his statement here🔽

At the commemoration event at the Japanese parliament building on 3 June 2025 to mark the 36th anniversary of #TiananmenMassacre & 15th anniversary of #LiuXiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize. Thanks Ma Thida, chair of @peninternational.bsky.social’s Writers-in-Prison Committee, for her recorded speech.

We're honored to share an excerpt of A Phyu’s “I Was Not Alone,” first published in @altsean.bsky.social WOMEN'S VOICES FROM THE REVOLUTION.

Join us online on 5/29 as A Phyu, @mathida.bsky.social and @debbiestot.bsky.social discuss the power of storytelling for advocacy. pen.org/first-i-have...

Release of Myanmar Filmmaker An Essential Step in the Battle for Free Expression