[RESCHEDULED] – Due to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, events at the Scottish Parliament have been cancelled until after the funeral. Please note the change in date for this event below. Scottish PEN are holding a vigil for Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist assassinated in Malta on 16th October 2017. 5 years on, those who […]

We hope that Roberta Metsola will continue her strong record on protecting the rights of journalists and supporting free expression, and the fight for justice for journalists including Daphne Caruana Galizia and Jan Kuciak.

Carl MacDougall, President of Scottish PEN, and Lisa Clark, Project Manager, have signed a letter from Open Democracy, calling for investigation and greater transparency around the UK Government’s handling of Freedom of Information requests, in response to concerns around ‘blacklisting’ and threats to press freedom.

UK PEN centres note with great concern the recent blacklisting of the British group of investigative journalists whose work focuses on the foreign, military and intelligence policies of the United Kingdom, Declassified UK, by the United Kingdom Government Ministry of Defence, and the MoD’s decision to exclude Declassified UK from MoD comment, in apparent retaliation for the group’s previous reporting on the war in Yemen.

Here is the resolution put forward by PEN Netherlands and Scottish PEN about the state of free expression in Malta at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, September 2018

On the one year anniversary of the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia we remember her bravery and legacy and look to the future to what we can do to protect journalists in Scotland, Europe and across the globe.

Here is our statement on the killing of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnírová in Slovakia