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PEN PRESS RELEASES: BY DATE
Following is an archive of press releases issued by PEN American Center, listed by year. Please contact us if you have any questions about these releases.
2001
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March 26, 2001:
High school librarian, theater director receive PEN/Newman's Own Awards
PEN named Deloris Wilson and Alberto Sarraín as co-recipients of this year’s PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award. >> More
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April 5, 2001:
Iranian publisher, Uzbek novelist to receive 2001 Freedom to Write Awards
PEN named Shahla Lahiji, a publisher prosecuted for participating in a conference in Berlin last year, and Mamadali Mahmudov, a renowned novelist and opposition activist serving a 14-year prison term in Uzbekistan, as recipients of the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Awards. >> More
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May 14, 2001:
PEN opposes preliminiary injunction halting publication of The Wind Done Gone
PEN called on a Federal Appeals Court to reverse a lower court decision enjoining publication of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone. >> More
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October 11, 2001:
PEN American Center protests prison transfer for Iranian translator
PEN expressed deep concern over the news that Khalil Rostamkhani, an Iranian translator sentenced to 8 years in prison, has been transferred to Bandar Abbas prison in southern Iran. >> More
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November 16, 2001:
PEN seeks quick action by Fox administration following IACHR ultimatum
PEN called on President Vicente Fox to comply with the two-day deadline the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued for the release of José Francisco Gallardo Rodríguez. >> More
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