One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests, which has worked time and time again with PEN.
Salman RushdieTwo things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
Salman RushdieIt's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.
Salman Rushdie