PEN International #IWD2016 Campaign
“Our parents are old and cannot take care of him, so we are very worried about Bashir’s future.”
And This is Where I Stand Sometimes
“And this is where I stand sometimes looking up at the sky staring through that narrow gap between two sheets of rusted steel cutting me off from the heavy sky. It’s always overcast this ceiling, that lid that lies over my life… But I see swallows, on occasion, breathless,…
The Trial of Mahvash Sabet
“The trial of Mahvash and her co-workers officially began on 12 January 2010, in Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The presiding judge, who was dressed in clerical robes, was called Maqiseh. Throughout the proceedings Mahvash was firm and determined, brave and dignified; she seemed fearless of the…
Profiles for Freedom: Mahvash Sabet and the Day of the Imprisoned Writer
On the Day of the Imprisoned Writer (November 15th) help raise the profile of Mahvash Sabet’s case by changing your profile picture on Facebook and Twitter to this photograph of Mahvash. Doing this will help to remind everyone that Mahvash Sabet – and many other writers – are imprisoned simply for exercising their human…
“…you have now been welcomed into a vast and honoured company of imprisoned writers…” Alberto Manguel writes to Mahavash Sabet
Dear Mahvash Sabet, It’s almost an impertinence, I feel, to write to a poet who is being kept behind bars for her words and beliefs. King Lear, imprisoned at the end of the play with his daughter Cordelia, tells her that they will become “God’s spies”. That is what you…