Scottish PEN has issued a statement in solidarity with writers, artists and activists in Scotland subject to the abuse of terror laws.

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Scottish PEN’s annual Naomi Mitchison Lecture for 2025, “The Menace of Hope at the Back of Life: Practical Philosophies of Protest, Permaculture, and the Pen” – will be delivered by Professor Alison Phipps at the University of Glasgow on 11 December.

Today marks 97 months since the brutal assassination of #DaphneCaruanaGalizia in #Malta
97 months without full justice for her killing.
Scottish PEN continues to fight for #JusticeForDaphne
#JournalismIsNotACrime
@peninternational.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social

#DaphneCaruanaGalizia was assassinated in Malta 8 years ago today.
Scottish PEN supports the call by 17 press freedom & journalists' organisations for #Malta to set up a national action plan on media freedom & journalist safety.
#JusticeForDaphne
@peninternational.bsky.social @rsf.org

Scottish PEN has issued a statement regarding the arrest of award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty and calling on the authorities to respect the legitimate right of people to protest in support of the ideal of one humanity living in peace in one world 👇
scottishpen.org/statement-on...

93 months since the assassination of #DaphneCaruanaGalizia and we are still waiting for full justice to be served.
Scottish PEN pledges to keep fighting until justice is done.
#JusticeForDaphne #Malta
@peninternational.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social

Photo courtesy of @lizzie4.bsky.social, Vice President of Scottish PEN

Statement by Scottish PEN on the move t ban Palestine Action as terorists

#DaphneCaruanaGalizia was brutally assassinated 92 months ago today & full justice has still not been served.
Scottish PEN will continue to support the fight for #JusticeForDaphne until justice is done.
#NoImpunity

@peninternational.bsky.social
@daphne.foundation
@irishpen.bsky.social

91 months ago today, #DaphneCaruanaGalizia was assassinated for exposing the truth.
Scottish PEN stands in solidarity with Daphne's family & with activists in #Malta
We condemn the attacks on the protest-memorial in Valletta & continue to demand #JusticeForDaphne
@peninternational.bsky.social

Scottish PEN joins @rsf-inter.bsky.social and the
@ifex.org network in expressing deep concern regarding the decision to grant bail to Yorgen Fenech in the case of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

See @maltatoday.bsky.social for more context.

www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/nationa...

Scottish PEN statement on The Times' article regarding the surveillance of writers in Scotland – scottishpen.org/surveillance...

(Picture credit: @thetimes)

Scottish PEN's remarks on today's Holocaust Memorial Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp – scottishpen.org/holocaust-me...

(Photograph: Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters)

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s writing is like an explainer of why the PEN Charter is so vital. We're proud to join @peninternational.bsky.social, @englishpen.bsky.social, PEN Wales Cymru & other human rights organisations in urging the Foreign Secretary to secure his release.

scottishpen.org/uk-foreign-s...