PEN International & PEN Canada : 12 Eritrean writers and journalists disappearance since 2001 - 25 years ago

From my emaill 

Writer, Salah El Din Mohssein

18-9-2026

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT ISAIAS AFWERKI

READ THE OPEN LETTER

Acclaimed writers from around the world have signed an open letter to President Isaias Afwerki, in support of PEN's global Proof of Life campaign 

Signatories include 

Nobel laureates Olga Tokarczuk and J.M. Coetzee

Burhan Sonmez, President of PEN International

Rohinton Mistry, recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Ben Okri and Yann Martel, Booker Prize winners

Tsitsi Dangarembga, recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Isabel Allende, recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize winner

Colm Tóibín, winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The letter calls for verified proof of life for 12 Eritrean writers and journalists who have been held incommunicado since 2001 and calls for an end to 25 years of silence and enforced 

disappearance

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The same arrived by email , from PEN Canada 

  Twenty-five years (25  years ! )  of silence : a global demand for 

Proof of Life for  12 Eritrean writers 

Link 

https://us.list-manage.com/80WpdEUwzKW?e=69c968325e&c2id=bc5c5a865ea508aa1dc8251bf36191e5&m=ZxIlA9h7kK5MMgtqoYMOux0faUA6k9kxEGCUqwzcsFDry0ZZ-hkkXWE1-0mW

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