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Reader Privacy Advocates Welcome Patriot Act Reform Measures

The Campaign for Reader Privacy, a coalition of organizations representing librarians, booksellers, authors, and publishers, welcomed the introduction of legislation that will safeguard the First Amendment reader privacy rights… More

Two Editors Jailed for A Year

International PEN protests the one-year prison sentence handed to newspaper editors Ibrahim Mohamed Ali and Asrat Wedajo on August 24, 2009 for their coverage of sensitive issues. They were… More

Writers Freed in Afghanistan, China

PEN welcomes the release of journalist Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, who had originally been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, and Ilham Tohti, a member of the Uighur PEN… More

Six Journalists Pardoned and Released

International PEN welcomes the September 3, 2009 release of the six Gambian journalists who were given a two-year prison sentence last month for sedition and defamation after they criticized… More

This Sporting Life: Fish and bicycles

From the tottering Jenga tower of my thoughts, a few notions this week on tennis and on women and on men, on the blonde promise of smooth youth, on… More

Soliloquy In A Cell

Nothing seems to be anything but a total miscarriage lost in the stigma of pronouncing due process. ‘Branded’ Sank’s scars depress a prisoner of society.“A good man can be… More

The Return of Joe Prison

M.D. “Doc” Bass56130Rahway PrisonLockbag RRahway, NJ 07065“…but if the plant is sown and reared in the wrong soil, it will develop every contrary defect…”(Socrates)In spite of the desperate hope… More