Editorial Why does Nationalism Seem to Exclude a Free Debate? Nine years ago, in October 2007, Pen International presented a report called “Insult and Defamation” that deals with how... Text: Ola Larsmo September 17 2016
Editorial Refuge in resistance to terror Already in 1997 Jacques Derrida held a prophetic lecture. This was during the International Parliament of Writers’... Text: Ola Larsmo March 09 2016
Editorial Terror attacks against Bangladesh bloggers murder the future One after the other the names of writers and bloggers who have been murdered have appeared on the computer screen... Text: Ola Larsmo December 17 2015
Editorial It is easy to sound apocalyptic when discussing the directions that the freedom of speech is taking in the world Year after year the organizations that globally monitor the freedom of speech and of the press reach the same depressing... Text: Ola Larsmo October 13 2015
Editorial Ever more information; less and less freedom At the end of the 1990s ECHELON popped up as a new acronym on the international debating scene. Journalists, also... Text: Ola Larsmo July 08 2015
Editorial The third condition of freedom Food or morals? This Brecht quote and dilemma underlies the discussion about the freedom of speech and other human... Text: Ola Larsmo April 08 2015
Editorial Threats against LGBT people is a threat to our freedom of speech What may not be spoken about is always very important. This truism is known to writers who have surprised themselves... Text: Ola Larsmo December 16 2014
Editorial What happened to “the Arab Spring”? These days, “the Arab Spring” is an expression that has almost an emetic effect on many of those who were most heavily... Text: Ola Larsmo September 10 2014
Editorial Welcome to the goldfish bowl It has been obvious for some time now, perhaps 20 years or so, that the struggle for the freedom of speech is being... Text: Ola Larsmo May 04 2014
Editorial Voices from Burma It is easy to forget that Burma, or Myanmar as it is now called, is a huge country. It is smaller than Turkey but bigger... Text: Ola Larsmo March 13 2014
Editorial PEN/Opp explores russia The headlines in the Swedish newspapers are at the time of writing dominated by the news that Swedish Neo-Nazis have... Text: Ola Larsmo December 19 2013
Editorial Ola Larsmo: We need to know more about those who know everything about us Two areas of unrest have dominated the news this past year: the growing humanitarian catastrophe in the wake of the... Text: Ola Larsmo October 23 2013
Editorial What do we really know about what is currently happening in Iran? The country that tops the British Guardian’s list of countries in the world that have the most intense censorship of the... Text: Ola Larsmo June 10 2013
Editorial Mexico’s deadly war on information Ioan Grillo, in his harrowing article about Mexico’s war on drugs in this issue of PEN/Opp, raises a disturbing question... Text: Ola Larsmo March 09 2013
Editorial What is happening to the freedom of expression in Turkey? On Christmas Eve three years ago the Turkish-Kurdish writer and lawyer Muharrem Erbey was arrested in his home on a... Text: Ola Larsmo January 08 2013
