{"id":178559,"date":"2019-01-21T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.omnium.cat\/?p=178559"},"modified":"2019-01-21T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:10:39","slug":"pen-calls-on-spanish-authorities-to-drop-the-charges-against-incarcerated-civil-society-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnium.cat\/en\/pen-calls-on-spanish-authorities-to-drop-the-charges-against-incarcerated-civil-society-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN calls on Spanish authorities to drop the charges against incarcerated civil society leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The writers\u2019 association denounces the excessive restrictions on the right to freedom of expression<\/h3>\n<p>The writers\u2019 association PEN Catal\u00e0, along with the president and the executive director of PEN International, among others, denounces the excessive restrictions on the right to freedom of expression resulting from the disproportionate charges of rebellion and sedition filed against civil society leaders Jordi Cuixart and Jordi S\u00e0nchez, who have been held in pre-trial detention for over a year for having peacefully expressed their political views.<\/p>\n<p>In a communiqu\u00e9 released on Monday that is signed by PEN Catal\u00e0 and the signatories listed below, the organisation stresses that Catalans are being persecuted \u2013 \u201cin a way not seen since the Franco dictatorship \u2013 for different artistic expressions, clearly attacking the right to freedom of expression and its different forms of artistic expression\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organisation, PEN\u2019s Founding Charter defends \u201cthe free circulation of ideas within each country\u201d. \u201cAccording to this principle\u201d, the statement reads, \u201cmembers are to refuse any form of suppression of freedom of expression in the country or community to which they belong, and oppose arbitrary censorship in time of peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, PEN calls on the Spanish authorities \u201cto drop the charges against S\u00e0nchez and Cuixart and to release them immediately. Beyond having expressed their ideas peacefully, they have also ensured, from the organisations over which they preside, the free circulation of ideas of writers in Catalonia,\u201d the statement concludes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178560\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-178560\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.omnium.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/PEN-Catala-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.omnium.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/01015333\/PEN-Catala-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.omnium.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/01015333\/PEN-Catala-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.omnium.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/01015333\/PEN-Catala-1024x635.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.omnium.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/01015333\/PEN-Catala.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTO: Pen Catal\u00e0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Signatories<br \/>\n<\/strong>Jennifer Clement (President of PEN International)<br \/>\nK\u00e4tlin Kaldmaa (Secretary General of PEN International)<br \/>\nCarles Torner (Executive Director of PEN International)<br \/>\nJos\u00e9 Eduardo Agualusa<br \/>\nErri De Luca<br \/>\nSuso de Toro<br \/>\nColm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<br \/>\nMary Ann Newman<br \/>\nSimona \u0160krabec (President of PEN International\u2019s Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee)<br \/>\nBurhan S\u00f6nmez (PEN International board member)<br \/>\nMarjan Strojan (President of PEN International\u2019s Peace Committee)<br \/>\nSalil Tripathi (President of PEN International\u2019s Committee of Imprisoned Writers)<\/p>\n<p>PEN Internacional<br \/>\nPEN America<br \/>\nPEN Argentina<br \/>\nPEN Basque Country<br \/>\nPEN Canada<br \/>\nPEN Croatia<br \/>\nPEN Scotland<br \/>\nPEN Slovenia<br \/>\nPEN Estonia<br \/>\nPEN France<br \/>\nPEN Honduras<br \/>\nPEN Mexico<br \/>\nPEN Portugal<br \/>\nPEN Quebec<br \/>\nPEN Russia<br \/>\nPEN French-speaking part of Switzerland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writers\u2019 association denounces the excessive restrictions on the right to freedom of expression The writers\u2019 association PEN Catal\u00e0, along with the president and the executive director of PEN International, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":178565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"post_headquarter":[],"post_project":[],"class_list":["post-178559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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