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Called The Sedition Had it not been for Article 23, Hong Kong's draconian internal security legislation, Hong Kong (English-speaking)
Files: Writers in Prison in Asia and created by a dedicated committee of five PEN members, the dramatic black, white
PEN may well have died a slow death. The writers'group, part of London-based PEN International and active worldwide on issues related to freedom of expression, was founded in Hong Kong in 1991 with more than 30 members. But in recent years, particularly since Hong Kong's return to China, it had faltered as more and more English-speaking writers left the
and red exhibit transformed the look of the FCC's Main Bar area and stairwell. It was effective and well-received, so much so that the Board of the FCC generously allowed it to remain up a month beyond the planned closing, until the end of April. Today, the work of PEN is focused primarily on building its Writers in Prison Committee. This is the all-important subgroup that works closely with PEN International to support writers imprisoned or under threat around the world. In Hong Kong, PEN members on the committee regularþ receive PEN London's Rapid Action Network alerts about threatened or endangered writers around Asia. They then move quickly to disseminate the information. For example, three alerts about harassed writers in Asia were received in
terrltory. Last fall, the nickel dropped. In response to a query about PEN and Article 23 ftom a concerned writer, the one visible extant PEN member said he was planning to fold the organisation unless new members could somehow be found. A
clarion call went out. If ever there was a time for writers, editors and journalists in Hong Kong to band together to protect themselves against a genuine threat, this was it. The feeling was very much a case of if you don't act now to protect freedom of expression, you won't be able to act later. A sense ofurgency filled the air. Vlill youjoin, please? We need,
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October 2003 alone. Oneo about the continued detention of China's Internet writer and student Liu Di, focused on the {act that he has been held incommunicado for almost a year without charge or trial. The second focused on the re-arrest ofthree Buddhist monks, scholars and writers in Vietnam as part of "an ongoing
clampdown on the banned United Buddhist Church of Vietnam." And the third alert highlighted the plight of Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, the writer and political leader
to skip the middle and get to the end, PEN Hong Kong is b-a-a-a-c-k! The world's most prestigious association of writers -- founded 1n I92L by the English novelist and Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy -- with some 12,000 members in I30 centres in94 countries, held its first meeting
who has been under house arrest since 1989. Ifyou are a professional writer and would be interested in joining PEN, please contact hkpen-eng1992@yahoo.com for more information. You'll be glad you did. W'e'll be glad, too. E
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Merle Linda Volin is an award-winning journalist and PEN Hong Kong's Acting Vice President.
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