Pen statements
Human rights activists demand immediate hospitalization of unlawfully imprisoned Crimean journalist Iryna Danylovych
On March 22, 2023, citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych went on a dry hunger strike in Russian-occupied Crimea as she was not given medical care. The day before, the journalist fainted while being transported ...
Human Rights Organizations and Activists Demand Freedom for Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian POW, Illegally Sentenced by Russian occupiers
On March 10, 2023, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that Ukrainian human rights defender and serviceman Maksym Butkevych, who had been captured by the Russian forces in ...
Statement of Human Rights Organizations Regarding Conviction of Nariman Dzelial and the Akhtemov Brothers in Occupied Crimea
On September 21, 2022, the so-called "Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea" announced the conviction of three Crimean political prisoners: Nariman Dzhelial, the first deputy of the Mejlis ...
Stand up for truth and justice: Resolution of the VI Regional meeting of PEN centres
In 2014 the Russian Federation violated international regulations, starting a war in Ukraine. In 2022 Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. We, the participants of the VI Regional meeting ...
PEN Ukraine Executive Council statement on attempt on the life of the writer Salman Rushdie
PEN Ukraine strongly condemns the violent public assault on the literary writer Salman Rushdie, made on August 12, at an event at the Chautauqua Institution, New York. After the attack, Salman Rushdie ...
Statement on enforced disappearance of Iryna Danilovych in occupied Crimea
On April 29, 2022, activist and citizen journalist Iryna Danilovych went missing in the occupied Crimea while returning home from work. On the same day, Russian security forces searched Iryna's house ...
On Dialogue While Bombs Are Falling: PEN Ukraine Addresses the Global Intellectual Community
As members of PEN Ukraine, writers in a variety of languages and representing a number of nationalities, and recognizing that, in a time of war, all who work in cultural fields bear a special responsibility ...
PEN Ukraine letter to the international PEN community
Dear Friends, In childhood we were told that it’s in times of trouble you discover who your true friends really are. The veracity of this principle has come home to us only now, in our hour of great ...
White or Black – President of PEN Ukraine in reply to PEN Germany’s letter
We are criticized for campaigning to boycott the entire Russian culture until the war is over. We are libeled for our addresses and discussions allegedly containing elements of hate speech. International ...
Statement on boycott of books from Russia in the world
Dear world literature and publishing community! We call for a ban on spreading Russian narrative through cultural products in general and books in particular. The very important actions were already taken ...