PEN Applauds Landmark Ruling Against NSA Surveillance
PEN American Center welcomes with cautious optimism today a U.S. District Court ruling that NSA telephone metadata collection is “likely to be unconstitutional." More
PEN Spotlights Digital Freedom and Surveillance before the UN Security Council
PEN American Center appears at the UN Security Council to comment on a landmark resolution to protect journalists and end impunity. More
Missing: A Grassroots Campaign for Liu Xia
"Saving Liu Xia" calls on netizens, as well as your regular wheatpaste-toting activists, to spread an image of a "Missing" poster around their workplaces, around their towns, around their… More
A Stand for Democracy in the Digital Age
More than 500 writers around the world have issued an open letter calling for the right to privacy in the digital realm. More
PEN Urges Tech Companies to Support Global Government Surveillance Reform Principles
PEN American Center welcomes the announcement this morning by Apple, Google, Facebook, and other leading technology companies of an open letter calling on the U.S. government to adopt proposed… More
The Chains Will Shrivel into Foil
Award-winning poet Mandla Langa and board member of South African PEN writes about Mandela's enduring legacy on free expression in South Africa. More
PEN Protects Your Writing in the Cloud by Joining Coalition for ECPA Reform
The U.S. government thinks it can read your writing in the cloud without a warrant. You can help us stop them. More
Biden Asked to Raise Case of Jailed Nobel Laureate and Wife
A group of human rights organizations has issued an open letter calling on Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to press Chinese officials on the plight of two of… More
China Nobel’s Wife asks for Doc, Husband’s Letters
The wife of Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, depressed from being forcibly sequestered at home alone for the past three years by state security, is issuing a few… More