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Turkey: Charges Against Filmmakers Çayan Demirel and Ertuğrul Mavioğlu an Affront to Free Expression
Turkey must uphold its domestic and international commitments to protect freedom of expression and ensure that artists are free to create without fear. More
DARE: U.S. News Outlets Block European Readers Over New Privacy Rules
American news outlets block access to their websites from Europe rather than comply with strict new European data privacy laws. Privacy concerns arise over voice-activated "assistants" in the home… More
Writing War: A Reading List
Molly Crabapple, co-author and illustrator of Marwan Hisham’s latest memoir, Brother of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War and Alexis Okeowo, author of A Moonless Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and… More
PEN America Statement on Morgan Freeman Allegations
We are deeply concerned about the alleged inappropriate conduct of Morgan Freeman, who recently participated in the PEN America Literary Gala to present Stephen King with the 2018 PEN… More
Five Years’ Imprisonment for Tibetan Activist Tashi Wangchuk an Attack on Language Rights
“The preservation of language rights is a fundamental building block of the right to free expression. Tashi Wangchuk should never have spent a single day in detention for his… More
The Breaks
Monday / a truck hits / a car hits / hers and the brakes / the driver says the brakes / are so weak / the decisions / are… More
DARE: Trump Can’t Block Twitter Followers, Federal Judge Says
Citing First Amendment, federal judge rules in favor of Knight Institute challenge to Trump who has been blocking individuals on Twitter—the decision is expected to be appealed. NFL owners… More
Judge’s Decision on President’s Blocking of Twitter Users a Substantive and Symbolic Defense of the First Amendment
Today's decision is both substantively important as a defense of the First Amendment, and symbolically important in reminding us that, as the court states, "no government official—including the President—is… More
Slightly Plural
"Last time this bend in the river was shady and swift, but a downed branch makes a quiet corner away from the current where life, slow and abundant, flourished… More
Tribute to Philip Roth (1933-2018)
Today the PEN America community mourns the loss of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth. A longtime PEN America supporter and multi-year awardee, Roth was a prodigious writer who will… More
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