I live in a small, single-story house in Al-Atayef Quarter. My husband didn’t leave me anything, apart from a mud house that shakes when the thunder crashes and the rain pours. [More]
The Night by Jaime Saenz; translated by Gander and Johnson
Over the years, all your furniture and possessions wear down and fine away. / Many things disappear on break, while others meet odd fates, as if they were human. . . . [More]
Many professors and scholars were labeled counterrevolutionaries and yes, they were assigned to clean toilets. I wanted to work, but the students in Mao’s Red Guard wouldn’t allow it. . . . [More]
As we mourn the passing of one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, let's not forget that the field of human rights has also lost a great defender of freedom of expression. [More]
Writer, former political prisoner, and PEN member; convicted in 2004 of "inciting subversion of state power" and handed a three-year sentence... [Review the case]
Acclaimed Tibetan writer and poet whose critical writings on China's policy towards Tibet have led to severe restrictions on her ability to...
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Freelance reporter and blogger, civil rights, environmental and AIDS activist, arrested in Beijing for “inciting subversion of state power.” [Review the case]
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