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On Friday 18 June, members and friends of English PEN are invited to attend a demonstration to celebrate the 65th birthday of our Honorary Member Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

To mark Refugee Week, please join us for an evening in the company of two prominent writers in exile: Atiq Rahimi and Eli Amir. Both authors will be reading from their latest books and taking audience questions.

Article 19 continues to highlight cases of artists around the world whose right to freedom of expression has been curtailed and abused, and seeks to more effectively promote and defend freedom to create. Here are most important abuses from May 2010.

Russian human rights activist and the head of an organization campaigning against torture Aleksei Sokolov has been sentenced to five years in a high security prison colony, one year after his arrest by police outside his house in Yekaterinburg. Aleksei Sokolov was charged with robbery.

Article 19’s analysis of the Draft Code on Administrative Offences highlights the restrictive mass media regime in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Article 19 calls on the Government to ensure the Draft Code meets international freedom of expression standards.

Index on Censorship hosts a discussion on artistic ownership at the UK’s biggest literary festival.

Why is it that so many people around the world appear willing to give up freedoms in return for either security or prosperity? Index on Censorship Chief Executive John Kampfner discusses his book Freedom for Sale at the UK’s biggest literary festival.

Vladimir Neklyayev, poet, author and former president of the Republic of Belarus PEN, and newspaper editor Sergei Voznyak were among scores of members of civil society groups arrested in recent days. The two men were imprisoned, accused of distributing “false information”.

Amnesty International, Article 19, and International PEN call on the Azerbaijani government to comply with the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights and immediately release imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev.