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Surveillance in South Africa: a Grievous Bodily Harm
In truth, South African literature has flourished post-apartheid, producing a range of new voices and genre literature for the first time, although the identity of our literature as a… More
Understanding the Threat
Improving the state of privacy is even more complicated now that we have begun to understand the extent of the government’s surveillance capabilities. A year ago, many might have… More
Optimism in Check, Nihilism at Bay
With the Olympics now underway in Sochi, the world is forced to view a country where the freedoms of its citizens have undergone abrupt and tragic erosions in the… More
Open Season on Russian Gays and Lesbians
These are just a few examples, but they illustrate the point: the purpose of this law isn’t just to shove LGBT people back in the closet, it’s also meant… More
India: Writers Defend Best-Selling Book
PEN Members in India have expressed their concern at reports that Penguin has agreed to withdraw Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History from circulation. More
Le Quoc Quan Writes from Prison
Jailed Vietnamese blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan has launched a hunger strike to protest the refusal by prison authorities to provide him access to legal counsel,… More
ICPC Member Li Jianhong Conditionally Released from Detention
UPDATE: Writer Li Jianhong, a member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) who served as its Writers in Prison Committee Coordinator until the end of 2013, was conditionally… More
Freedom of Expression Under Threat in Egypt as Journalists Languish in Prison
PEN calls on Egypt’s interim government to comply with its international obligations to respect freedom of expression, and to release anyone held solely for the peaceful exercise of their… More
“The ongoing crackdown on civil society is truly unprecedented”
Those who dare speak out—be it about their sexual identity or their discontent with governmental policies—are threatened with punishment and blackened in the eyes of society. More
What Would Vladimir Putin Do?
What would Brian Boitano do? He'd parody some lyrics to highlight free expression violations in Russia, of course. More
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