The Administration promised free expression. The results were anything but more freedom.
As usual, China leads the pack but there is a new high of 375 total imprisoned worldwide.
Submissions for the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards are open through August 20.
We analyzed the books banned in the last school year to see which topics were most targeted.
The impact of these cuts would disproportionately harm rural states and local communities that rely on public media as a trusted source of information.
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26 December 2024 marked the fifth anniversary of the crackdown on the “Xiamen gathering”, a private gathering that about 20…
NEW YORK—Reports today announced that imprisoned essayist Xu Zhiyong is on day 20 of a hunger strike to protest his…
Iran remained the leading jailer of female writers globally, many for their advocacy against mandatory hijab
There were 339 writers from 33 countries jailed in 2023, an increase of 62 writers compared to 2022 and 101…
PEN America condemns the unjust conviction and sentencing of Chinese labor and women’s rights activist Li Qiaochu. Li, who is…
PEN America condemns a Chinese court’s decision to give novelist, pro-democracy blogger, and political commentator Yang Hengjun a suspended death…
During 2021, Myanmar accounted for the single-largest increase of writers and public intellectuals newly jailed for exercising free expression, due…
