Tag Archives: English PEN

Labour Party Irish Society Zoom (Supporting Margaret Keane’ s family campaign for an inscription in Irish on her headstone)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Lia Mills

Last night the UK Labour Party Irish Society held a Zoom meeting concerning the case of a headstone in the graveyard of St Giles’ Church in the Diocese of Coventry. The family of Margaret Keane, who died in 2018, went … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 as Weapon

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Lia Mills

It has not taken long for authoritarian regimes to turn Covid 19 into a weapon. In Turkey, for example, thousands of people who were imprisoned for criminal offences including rape and murder have been released because of the risk of … Continue reading →

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PHILIPPE SANDS and DANIEL GORMAN speak to English PEN

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Lia Mills

On 6th May, a Zoom meeting for members of English PEN heard Daniel Gorman (Director) and Philippe Sands (President) in conversation. The primary focus of the discussion was on Human Rights in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, but they … Continue reading →

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Writers Under Threat: Nurcan Baysal, Daphne Caruana Galizia

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Lia Mills

  Last Wednesday I was at a moving, powerful vigil for murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Many people spoke about Daphne’s life and read from her work. She had been a consistent campaigner against corruption and collusion throughout her … Continue reading →

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