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Turkey: Charges against five journalists must be dropped
Charges of acquiring and divulging state secrets, membership of, and administration of a terrorist organization brought against five journalists, including four former members of Taraf newspaper’s editorial and investigative… More
PEN Concerned by Google’s Suspension of Popular Artist’s Blog
On June 27, without prior warning, Google disabled his blog and Gmail account of artist Dennis Cooper with a generic notification that he had violated Google¹s terms of service.… More
U.S. Election Frontrunners Must Respect and Protect the Role of the Press
The news media’s role as the watchdog of democracy is vital. At a time of turmoil at home and abroad, with a pivotal election looming, the public’s need for… More
Free Expression Digest: Fri., July 8
Vatileaks journalists cleared, UN declares online freedom a human right that must be protected, detainee in Chinese lawyer crackdown, released More
PEN Haiti Supports AZUEI Movement to Build Bridges between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
PEN Haiti’s House of Writers hosted eight Dominican artists who visited the country in June as part of the broader AZUEI Artistic Movement, a binational effort that has emerged… More
PEN America Mourns Longtime Trustee Barbara Goldsmith
Goldsmith was a passionate and enormously generous supporter of PEN's freedom of expression advocacy programming for more than three decades. More
Announcing the New PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
New PEN Award recognizes twelve emerging fiction writers for their debut short story published in a literary magazine or cultural website More
Gregory Rabassa: Selections
Excerpts from two novels Gregory Rabassa introduced to the English-speaking world. More
Ethiopia: Overturn blogger’s prison sentence
PEN has learned that blogger Zelalem Workagegnehu’s appeal against his sentence of five years and two months in prison on terrorism charges will be heard on July 6, 2016. More
A Tribute to Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016)
The PEN America community remembers Gregory Rabassa for his contribution to the world of letters, his masterly translations from the Spanish and the Portuguese, and his constant advocacy of… More