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Turkey: Overturn sentences imposed on journalists for news reports on arms transfers
Prison sentences imposed on Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül after their conviction yesterday of "revealing state secrets" are a further demonstration of the lack of independence of… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Tues., May 10
LuxLeaks prosecutors seek jail term of 18 months for whistleblowers, Media insiders in Jordan call for 'constitutionalizing' access to information, Scribes protest in Delhi over press freedom issues in… More
Free Expression Digest: Mon., May 9
PEN's Free Expression Digest brings you a daily curated round-up of the most important free expression-related stories from around the web. Please send your feedback and suggestions to [email protected] PEN… More
120 Writers Join PEN America Call for Release of Egyptian Author Ahmed Naji
Chimamanda Adichie, Woody Allen, Michael Chabon, Philip Roth, and more call on Sisi to free novelist jailed for 'violating public modesty' More
President Sisi: Release Ahmed Naji
More than 120 writers and artists join PEN America to protest the unjust imprisonment of our colleague, Egyptian novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji, and request his immediate release. More
Two Countries
In this piece delivered by Sabina Berman at the event Mexico In Two Acts during the 2016 PEN World Voices Festival, Berman delivered her personal view on contemporary Mexico's… More
Free Expression Digest: Fri., May 6
PEN's Free Expression Digest brings you a daily curated round-up of the most important free expression-related stories from around the web. Please send your feedback and suggestions to [email protected] Turkish… More
PEN/Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement Winners
2001 Marian Wood, Publisher of Marian Wood Books More
PEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career Winners
2010 Susan Choi 2011 Aleksandar Hemon More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thurs., May 5
Egyptian journalists increase protest of government crackdown, Cambodian center launches social media campaigns for press freedom, Tanzania: Isles Journalists Urged to Remain Impartial, Boost Greater Unity. More