“When your heart trembles for the rights of another human, that is when you begin to slip, that is when the interrogations begin…. When you find faith in people and believe in humanity and nothing else, that is when you commit your first crime.”
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PEN calls for release of jailed translator
PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee has issued a statement calling for the unconditional and immediate release of Mohammad Soleimaninia, the Iranian translator and internet expert imprisoned by Iranian authorities.
PEN demands release of Iranian writer, activist
More than 100 writers, poets and women’s rights activists are speaking out against the arrest of Faranak Farid, the Iranian journalist, poet and activist who was arrested on September 3 in Tabriz.