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The Perth chapter of PEN International

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PEN Perth is a non-profit organisation fighting for human rights and freedom of speech.

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URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Julian Assange

The UK Home Secretary Priti Patel will make her decision on Julian Assange’s extradition on 18th May. That’s only 5 days away. It’s not too late to help. If extradited, Assange faces a 175-year sentence in a maximum security prison, most likely in solitary confinement. Why? Because he exposed war crimes. He published the truth.…

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by penperth May 13, 2022May 16, 2022

MAY Newsletter – World Press Freedom Day special

‘Only the foolish would argue the fact of pluralism or deny its existence. Only the heinous would try to extinguish it. And only extremely foolish and heinous governments would try to extinguish it through repression and the imprisonment of dissidents, writers, journalists, social critics, and democracy and human rights activists.’ Pham Doan Trang’s final statement…

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by penperth May 1, 2022May 1, 2022

April 2022 Newsflash – Julian Assange

Who is Julian Assange? The world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. Julian Assange is a journalist, publisher and the founder of Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a site created for whistleblowers to safely leak information…

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by penperth April 18, 2022April 18, 2022

_{PEN Perth acknowledges this land’s traditional custodians, the Whadjuk Noongar people. We pay our respects to the Elders—past, present and future—and recognise their ongoing connection to country.}

_{Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.}

PEN Perth is based at the Centre for Stories in Northbridge, Western Australia.