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DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
National Security contractor leaks information on Russian hacking, top U.S. diplomat in China resigns over Paris Accord withdrawal, Harvard rescinds offers over offensive memes, and more. More
The PEN Ten with Lisa Ko
I said I wanted to be a writer, but only to myself—writers were not people who looked like me. More
AZERBAIJAN: Kidnapped journalist must be released immediately
PEN condemns the cross-border abduction and detention of Azeri investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who vanished from Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on May 29, 2017, and reappeared the following day in… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Post-truth tweets, Internet regulation in the U.K., citizen-journalist monks in Cambodia, and more. More
MYANMAR: Detention of Editor and Columnist Underscores Need to Reform Telecommunications Law
The detention of a newspaper editor and commentator in Myanmar illustrates how the Telecommunications Law is being used as a cudgel against free expression More
DARE to be Informed
Weekly digest of free expression news from the U.S. and around the world More
Press Freedom Groups File Ethics Complaint Against Gianforte
PEN America also wrote to President Trump expressing concern that the White House’s denigration of the media is suborning physical violence against reporters, and urged the president to denounce… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Citizens, cities, states, and businesses defy White House, commit to Paris climate agreement; free speech on campuses under threat; Putin continues to deny involvement in U.S. election, and more… More
AZERBAIJAN: Time for Justice for Ilgar Mammadov
Joint Statement The Council of Europe’s Legitimacy at Stake over Azerbaijan’s Persistent Non-compliance with European Court Judgment Today three years have passed since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered… More
UGANDA: Drop charges against academic
PEN welcomes the news that prominent feminist academic and activist Dr. Stella Nyanzi was released on bail on May 10, but continues to call for the charges against her… More