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PEN Goes to Court to Challenge New Surveillance Law

PEN American Center today joined the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other leading international human rights organizations, journalists, and attorneys in filing a lawsuit challenging the… More

PEN Appeal: Lu Gengsong

February 6, 2008 His Excellency Hu Jintao President of the People’s Republic of China State Council Beijing 100032 P.R. China Procurator General Mr. Jia Chunwang Supreme People’s Procuratorate Beiheyan Street 147 100726 Beijing P.R. China Your Excellencies, On behalf… More

PEN Appeal: Aliaksandar Zdzvizhkou

February 7, 2008 President of the Republic of Belarus Alyaksandr G. Lukashenka Karl Marx Str. 38 220016 g. Minsk Belarus Fax: 00 375 (172) 26 06 10 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,400… More

PEN Appeal: Azerbaijani journalists

January 7, 2008 His Excellency Heydar Aliyev President of the Azerbaijan Republic 19 Istiglaliyyat Street Baku AZ1066 Azerbaijan Fax: 011 994 12 92-0625 His Excellency Lt.-Gen. Ramil Usubov Ministry of Internal Affairs Husu Hajiyev Street… More

Poet Yusuf Juma Detained

International PEN is concerned by reports that Uzbek poet Yusuf Juma, who was arrested in December 2007, is suffering ill-treatment in prison. More

Five Journalists Pardoned; Four Still Imprisoned

International PEN welcomes the release following a pardon by the Azerbaijani president of five journalists, including honorary member of English PEN Rafiq Tagi, on December 28, 2007. More

PEN Appeal: Ragip Zarakolu

March 18, 2008 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Office of the Prime Minister Basbakanlik 06573 Ankara Turkey Foreign Minister and State Minister for Human Rights Mr. Abdullah Gül Office of the Prime Minister Basbakanlik 06573 Ankara … More