[{"text_idx": "#000005", "text": "Imprisoned but not silenced \u2013 On Day of the Imprisoned Writer PEN stands in solidarity with writers imprisoned for their work"}, {"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "Each year, on 15 November, PEN International, PEN Centres and PEN members from around the world commemorate the Day of the Imprisoned Writer to highlight and campaign on behalf of writers who face unjust imprisonment, attacks, harassment and violence simply for expressing themselves."}, {"text_idx": "#000008", "text": "Salil Tripathi, Chair of PEN International\u2019s Writers in Prison Committee said: \u2018Writers should be writing when they want to write. They should not be in prison. And yet, around the world, hundreds of writers are in jail today, and many more face intimidation and persecution because what they express upsets the authorities, offends the powerful, and unnerves governments. Writers are the conscience-keepers of society; they must remain free \u2013 their place is not in prison, but with pen and paper, with typewriters, with their keyboards. And on this day, every year, the entire PEN community says in one voice that we will continue to fight for freedom for any writer, anywhere in the world, who is prevented from doing his or her work. \u2018"}, {"text_idx": "#000009", "text": "Each year, PEN International focuses its campaigning on five cases that are emblematic of the kinds of challenges and dangers writers face simply in the course of carrying out their free expression work."}, {"text_idx": "#000011", "text": "Yn y carchar ond ddim yn dawel \u2013 Ar Ddiwrnod y Llenor sydd wedi\u2019i Garcharu, mae PEN yn sefyll mewn undod gyda llenorion sydd wedi\u2019u carcharu am eu gwaith"}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "Dechreuodd y diwrnod yn 1981 gan Bwyllgor Llenorion yn y Carchar PEN Rhyngwladol, ac mae\u2019n cael ei nodi gan ddathlu\u2019r rhyddid i ysgrifennu, a gan weithredu i alw am gyfiawnder a rhyddid dros cydweithwyr sydd yn y carchar neu sydd wedi\u2019u llofruddio. Ers 15 Tachwedd 2015, mae o leiaf 35 o lenorion wedi cael eu lladd dros y byd o ganlyniad i\u2019w gwaith."}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "Bob blwyddyn, mae PEN Rhyngwladol yn ffocysu ei ymgyrchoedd ar bump achos sy\u2019n arwyddluniol o\u2019r mathau o heriau a\u2019r peryglon y mae llenorion yn eu hwynebu wrth fynegi eu barn yn rhydd yn eu gwaith. Eleni, mae PEN yn ymgyrchu ar ran:"}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "\u2018Fel chi, rydw i a nifer o bobl eraill yn teimlo bod llenyddiaeth yn gallu ysbrydoli\u2019r hiraeth am gyfiawnder, creu goddefgarwch, ac ehangu cydymdeimlad a dealltwriaeth dyn. Er eich bod chi yn y carchar, nid ydych chi ar eich ben eich hunain: mae holl gymuned PEN o lenotion ledled y byd yn brwydro dros eich rhyddid.\u2019 \u2013 rhan o lythyr gan Margaret Atwood at lenor Twrceg ac aelod PEN Asli Erdogan, sydd yn y carchar."}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "Can Du\u0308ndar and Erdem Gu\u0308l"}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "Part of Can Du\u0308ndar\u2019s first defence in court on the 17th of December 2015"}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "Can Du\u0308ndar and Erdem Gu\u0308l have been held in solitary confinement since their arrests in November. No visitors have been permitted. They are being held on charges of treason for carrying out their duties as journalists."}, {"text_idx": "#000027", "text": "Picture of Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Du\u0308ndar with the story in question. Headline: \u2018Here are the weapons Erdog\u0306an said did not exist\u2019, \u2018They were hidden underneath medical supplies\u2019."}, {"text_idx": "#000030", "text": "or direct to the detention facility (English only):"}, {"text_idx": "#000034", "text": "Can Du\u0308ndar: \u2018There\u2019s no need to get upset. This is like a medal of honour for us. Our struggle will continue within and without.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000035", "text": "Erdem Gu\u0308l: \u2018Because of a journalistic article I wrote I am being accused of matters ranging from spying to being a member of an (illegal) organisation and of divulging state secrets. The whole business will be finished when the judge passes his verdict.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000037", "text": "Can Du\u0308ndar and Erdem Gu\u0308l have now been in solitary confinement for 27 days in Silivri Detention Facility due to their having carried out their journalistic responsibilities. No organisation, including PEN Turkey, has been granted permission to visit them. On the 30th of December 2015 it is our turn to take over the \u2018Vigil of Hope\u2019 outside the Detention Centre near Ankara which has been held by three organisations, PEN Turkey, The Turkish Writers\u2019 Syndicate and the Artists\u2019 Initiative."}, {"text_idx": "#000038", "text": "This vigil is not only for Can and Erdem but for all writers and journalists in prison..."}, {"text_idx": "#000039", "text": "We continue the fight against the mindset that disregards human honour."}, {"text_idx": "#000041", "text": "Can Du\u0308ndar ac Erdem Gu\u0308l"}, {"text_idx": "#000042", "text": "Rhan o amddiffyniad cyntaf Can Du\u0308ndar yn y llys ar 17 Rhagfyr, 2015"}, {"text_idx": "#000045", "text": "Carcharwyd Can Du\u0308ndar ac Erdem Gu\u0308l ar eu pennau eu hunain ers iddynt gael eu harestio ym mis Tachwedd. Ni chaniatawyd unrhyw ymwelwyr. Fe\u2019u carcharwyd ar gyhuddiadau o frad am gyflawni eu dyletswyddau fel newyddiadurwyr."}, {"text_idx": "#000046", "text": "Ym mis Tachwedd 2015 arestiwyd Can Du\u0308ndar ac Erdem Gu\u0308l, ei olygydd yn Ankara, ar gyhuddiadau o frad am gyhoeddi stori yn datgan fod eu papur wedi darganfod fod taflegrau yn cael eu hanfon dros y ffin rhwng Twrci a Syria, wedi\u2019u cuddio o dan gyflenwadau meddygol mewn lori\u0308au yn perthyn i MIT, sefydliad Cudd-ymchwil y Wladwriaeth."}, {"text_idx": "#000048", "text": "Gall negeseuon fod yn y Gymraeg neu\u2019r Saesneg. Bydd negeseuon yn y Gymraeg yn cael eu cyfieithu i\u2019r Dyrceg."}, {"text_idx": "#000052", "text": "Erbyn hyn mae Can Du\u0308ndar ac Erdem Gu\u0308l wedi\u2019u carcharu ar eu pennau eu hunain am 27 diwrnod yng Ngharchar Silivri oherwydd iddynt gyflawni eu cyfrifoldebau newyddiadurol. Ni chafodd yr un sefydliad, gan gynnwys PEN Twrci, ganiata\u0302d i ymweld a\u0302 nhw.Ar 30 Rhagfyr, 2015 ein tro ni yw cymryd trosodd yr \u2018Wyliadwriaeth Gobaith\u2019 a gynhelir gan aelodau PEN Twrci, Cynghrair Ysgrifenwyr Twrci a Menter yr Artistiaid y tu allan i\u2019r c archar ger Ankara.Nid yn unig dros achos Can ac Erdem y mae\u2019r wyliadwriaeth hon ond dros achos pob ysgrifenwr a newyddiadurwr a garcharwyd...\nParhawn yn ein brwydr yn erbyn meddylfryd sy\u2019n anwybyddu parch dynol."}, {"text_idx": "#000054", "text": "I won\u2019t keep you long, because what I have to say to you is short."}, {"text_idx": "#000055", "text": "I would simply like to offer you my infinite gratitude for what you did for me, while I was in prison in Yaounde\u0301, Cameroon."}, {"text_idx": "#000056", "text": "I received hundreds of letters and postcards from you, which continued to rain down on me in prison, and even more now that I am no longer there."}, {"text_idx": "#000057", "text": "The Prison Director found this greatly offensive, but, at the same time, his opinion of me immediately changed, as well as that of all the guards and all the other prisoners. Suddenly, I stopped being a criminal inmate who deserved his punishment, and instead became a V.I.P., not a \u201cVery Important Person\u201d, but in fact a \u2018 *Very Important Prisoner*\u201d, whose release was called for throughout the whole world."}, {"text_idx": "#000058", "text": "What to say of the letters addressed to the Prime Minister of Cameroon and to the Minister of Justice, of which my lawyer brought me copies?"}, {"text_idx": "#000059", "text": "You\u2019re probably not aware, but, let me tell you that, thanks to them, the Cameroonian Government arranged for my release to avoid being unpopular internationally, because national opinion, they do not care about, but international opinion, on the other hand, scares them greatly."}, {"text_idx": "#000060", "text": "In securing my release, you have at the same time demonstrated to the Cameroonians that a writer was not the useless being they thought, but indeed rather a personality whose existence and above all, well-being, is cared about throughout the world."}, {"text_idx": "#000067", "text": "\u2018Daphne\u2019s sons\u2019 (er cof am / in memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia)"}]