PEN Canada for Freedom of Expression

Honorary Members

Canada

  • Zahra Kazemi

    • China and Autonomous Regions

  • Nuremuhamet Yasin and Koresh Huseyin
  • Hada
  • Shi Tao
  • Yang Tongyan
  • Zheng Yichun
  • Li Zhi

    • Cuba

  • Normando Hernández González

    • Eritrea

  • Nine Eritrean journalists

    • Iran

  • Siamak Pourzand
  • Hossein Derakhshan

    • Myanmar

  • Aung San Suu Kyi

  • Zargana

  • Ko Aung Tun

    • Russia

  • Anna Politkovskaya

    • Turkey

  • Asiye Güzel Zeybek
  • Ragip Zarakolu

    • Turkmenistan

  • Rakhim Esenov

    • Uzbekistan

  • Muhammad Bekzhon
  • Mamadali Makhmudov

    • Vietnam

  • Nguyen Van Hai "Dieu Cay"
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    I am writing to you from my cell. Today, the hills that surround me appear sadder than on other days. It must be that they can feel the state of the souls of the prisoners in this jail. I feel like I am suspended between a real and unreal world. From a 1997 letter of thanks to PEN Canada from Peruvian writer Yehude Simón Munaro, who was imprisoned from 1992 to 2000