Bahrain: Writers Stripped of Citizenship

Bahrain should take immediate steps to reinstate nationality for writers unduly stripped of their citizenship, PEN American Center said in a statement today. This weekend, Bahrain revoked the citizenship… More

The Invisible Wall

Karl Ove Knausgård delivered this year's keynote address at the 14th Oxfam Novib/ PEN-International Awards for Freedom of Expression, in which he championed courageous writers from around the world… More

PEN Condemns UK Spying on Journalists’ Communications

Today’s revelations that the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) ‘harvested’ correspondence between journalists and editors at news organisations such as the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times, and… More

Sabotaging Free Speech in Italy

In Paris and throughout France, millions took to the street last Sunday in support of freedom of expression. And yet, in Italy, at the end of this month, one… More