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Writer Michel Kilo Released

International PEN welcomes the May 19, 2009 release of Syrian writer Michel Kilo. He was sentenced to three years in prison on May 13, 2007 for his dissident writings… More

Editor El Malick Seck Released

International PEN welcomes the news that 24 Heures Chrono editor El Malick Seck, who was serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for “offending the head of state” and defaming a… More

American-Iranian Journalist Released

International PEN welcomes the May 11, 2009 release of Iranian-American journalist and writer Roxana Saberi, who had been held since January 2009. She had been sentenced to eight years… More

The Evolution Revolution

Two hundred years after Charles Darwin began a discussion of human evolution, people are still talking. The discussion, and specifically the issue of teaching evolution to children, continued Sunday… More

Journalist Killed on World Press Freedom Day

International PEN protests in the strongest possible terms the murder of yet another Mexican journalist, Carlos Ortega Samper of El Tiempo de Durango, who was shot dead on May… More