30 June 2025 – English PEN, Scottish PEN, Wales PEN Cymru and PEN International are deeply concerned by the UK government’s proposal to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action under terrorism legislation. We urge the authorities to reconsider this step and to ensure full respect for the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful […]

The Day of the Imprisoned Writer shouldn’t need to exist because writers should be free to express themselves free from the threats of censorship, imprisonment or violence. Nik Williams marks the day with a call to action to protect writers across the globe.

  BAFFLED IN BETHLEHEM May 2010 They took my photograph beside That controversial wall.  Beneath the brutal sun we both Stood strong and straight and tall. A cross in white aslant on blue Marks the symbolic spot:  I posed beside a Saltire Sprayed by a left-wing Scot..  I hadn’t brought an aerosol And couldn’t even […]