Madrid/The Rey Juan Carlos University will host a round table on the occasion of the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a day dedicated to denouncing the persecution, censorship and imprisonment of writers, journalists and artists for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
Enrique Yeves, journalist and writer, will participate in the meeting; Ebbaba Hameida, vice president of Reporters Without Borders in Spain; Luz Escobar, correspondent in Spain for the Cuban newspaper 14ymedio; Alicia Quiñones, head of PEN Americas; Manuel Rico, president of the Collegiate Association of Writers (ACE), and Antonio Rubio, director of the Master of Investigative Journalism at the Rey Juan Carlos University.
The International Day of the Imprisoned Writer has been commemorated every November 15 since 1981, at the initiative of the Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International. The date seeks to make visible the cases of persecuted authors, subjected to unfair judicial processes or deprived of liberty for their ideas and publications.
The activity is part of an international PEN campaign that will run until December 10, Human Rights Day, with solidarity initiatives and defense of freedom of creation and the press.
