Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China: Silenced Writers Speak on the Eve of the Olympics
United States
Freedom of opinion & expression, Prisons
china, freedom of expression, Inner Mongolia, tibet, Uighur, writers
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On Thursday evening, August 7, 2008 – the night before the Olympic Games open in Beijing – PEN will hold an event at Tishman Auditorium in New York City in which a dozen of our leading members, including Edward Albee, Russell Banks and Francine Prose, will give voice to the more than 40 writers and journalists currently in prison in China. "Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China: Silenced Writers Speak on the Eve of the Olympics" will feature new and previously untranslated statements and writings by several of these jailed writers and other leading dissidents and members of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, which is on the front lines of the struggle to expand freedom of expression in China.
As the culminating event of PEN's eight month-long "We Are Ready for Freedom of Expression" campaign to win the release of all the writers and journalists currently held in Chinese prisons, it is timed to ensure that, as the attention of the world is focused on Beijing, we hear the voices that the Chinese government has tried to silence.
WHEN: Thursday, August 7, 2008
7:00pm (doors open at 6:30)
WHERE: Tishman Auditorium, The New School
66 W. 12th St. (between 6th and 7th Aves)
FREE and open to the public
For more information on the campaign and to take action, please visit www.pen.org/china
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