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February Featured Case: Violence and Censorship at Bangladesh Book Fair
Recent years have seen a serious decline in respect for freedom of expression and the associated rights of freedom of association, assembly, and of religion or belief in Bangladesh. Legislative… More
Open Letter to the Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States
Read PEN America’s open letter to the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington calling for charges against Shamsuzzoha Manik to be dropped. Read more about Manik's case » His Excellency Mohammad Ziauddin Ambassador of… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Three journalists who were arrested during inauguration protests have their charges dropped, Pakistan blocks popular satire website, and more. More
The PEN Ten with Alex Berenson
Nonfiction writers—reporters of all stripes, historians, biographers—have to start and end with the truth as their lodestar. The truth is a painful master. It blinks and hides, disappears entirely,… More
2017 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an Emerging American Playwright
Winner Thomas Bradshaw [caption id="attachment_135620" align="alignright" width="125"] Photo by David Paul-Morris, care of the CUNY Archives.[/caption] Three awards from PEN and the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater honor a Grand Master… More
AZERBAIJAN: Writer Ill-Treated In Prison; Serious Health Concerns
PEN believes that the charges against Ramazanov are politically motivated and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Ramazanov is currently serving a nine-year sentence for his anti-government writings. More
Cutting Off Culture: Immigration Ban Thwarts Artistic Exchange
President Trump’s hasty and malign January 27 Executive Order barring immigration from seven countries, blocking the entry of all refugees, and cutting off all migration from Syria to the… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump's visa ban threatens artistic expression, Conway asks for critical reporters to be fired, China makes arrests in online speech case, and more. More
South Korean Artists’ Blacklist a Threat to Artistic Expression
Recent allegations of the existence of a government-created “blacklist” of artists seen as critical of the Park Geun-hye administration, if true, would represent an institutionalized threat against artistic expression… More
Trump Administration’s Threat to Impose Ideological Test for Immigrants Evokes Dark Chapter in U.S. History, says PEN America
Excluding people from the United States purely on the basis of what they think and believe is unconstitutional and would evoke a dark chapter in our history More
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