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Patriot Act petition
Groups seeking to amend Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act launched a campaign today to obtain one million signatures in support of legislation that would protect the privacy… More
Book, library groups launch Patriot Act petition campaign
Groups representing booksellers, librarians and writers today launched a nationwide effort to obtain one million signatures in support of legislation to amend Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. More
Bryant Park event reflects on the freedoms to write and read
PEN American Center, National Coalition Against Censorship and American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression sponsored this reading to reflect on the freedoms to write and read seventy years after… More
Letters protest disciplining teacher for assigning Russell Banks book
Dear Chancellor Klein: As you may recall, we wrote you last January about a censorship incident at Brooklyn Tech High School involving the Russell Banks novel, Continental Drift. More… More
Grigory Pasko Released
Grigory Pasko, a journalist imprisoned in December 2001, was freed today, following a parole hearing. He was serving a two year and four month sentence for his reports on… More
Book groups protest secrecy on bookstore, library subpoenas
Groups representing authors, book publishers, and booksellers have criticized the Justice Department for refusing to reveal publicly how many times it has used its power under the U.S.A. PATRIOT… More
Risking retribution, Iranian lawyer pleads for jailed husband’s release
PEN American Center and PEN Canada, two leading centers of International PEN, today issued an urgent appeal for the release of four prominent writers and translators imprisoned in Iran. More
Iranian publisher, Uzbek novelist to receive 2001 Freedom to Write Awards
PEN American Center today named Shahla Lahiji, a publisher who is one of 19 Iranian writers and intellectuals prosecuted for participating in a conference in Berlin last year, and… More
‘Doing Time’
We've seen it all already, and it has been real enough, the cellblock riots, the black majority, what goes on inside prison walls. We've heard the clang of the… More