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ETHIOPA: Zone 9 Bloggers Should Be Acquitted of All Charges
NEW YORK—The Ethiopian Supreme Court's decision yesterday to open a criminal case against two Zone 9 bloggers formerly charged and acquitted of terrorism is a shameful setback in a long… More
DARE To Be Informed
The latest news from the world of free expression, including new threats to protest rights, danger for Mexican journalists, and more. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Twitter is suing the government in order to protect a Trump critic, Google adds fact-check findings to search and news results, and more. More
PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature Winners
2017 Douglas Heise for his translation of Ithaca Forever by Luigi Malerba More
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Winners
2017 “Galina” (Fifth Wednesday Journal), Angela Ajayi “The Handler” (Southwest Review), Amber Caron “Tell Me, Please” (The Common), Emily Chammah “The Asphodel Meadow” (The Summerset Review), Jim Cole “Solee” (The Southern Review), Crystal Hana Kim “The Manual… More
PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature Winners
2017 Adonis 2018 Edna O’Brien More
PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History Winners
2017 Aleksandar Hemon for How Did You Get Here?: Tales of Displacement (work-in-progress) More
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Winners
2017 Hisham Matar for The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Penguin Random House) 2018 Layli Long Soldier for WHEREAS (Graywolf Press) More
Oakland, Cal.
The horses go running through my mind. My student says / She wouldn’t believe police if they told her the sky is blue. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump defends Bill O'Reilly, Pepsi pulls ad accused of insensitivity towards protest movements, and Germany passes harsh punishments against social media hate speech. More