
Case of Writers in Prison Taken up in PEN Forum
[smartads] “It is a long arduous wait for justice and freedom.” Thus describes former UP Collegian editor Ericson Acosta’s nearly two years of detention in the Calbayog sub-provincial jail in Samar. The worldwide observance of International Day for Imprisoned Writers initiated in Manila by the Philippine Center of the International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists,…