United States Accused of Unprecedented Assault on Press Freedom
Press freedom advocates in the United States charge that the administration of President Barack Obama is engaged in a war on “leaks” of secret information that is without parallel… More
A Message from Solitary Confinement
Kazakh poet Aron Atabek is in solitary confinement for a book he wrote in prison. He sent this message to PEN. More
PEN Joins All-Star Coalition to Protect Digital Freedoms
PEN American Center today announced that it has joined Facebook, Google, Human Rights Watch, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as the newest member… More
PEN Joins All-Star Coalition to Protect Digital Freedoms
PEN American Center today announced that it has joined Facebook, Google, Human Rights Watch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as… More
House Intel panel working on bill to save NSA spying
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) hinted on Tuesday that his National Security Agency reform legislation would preserve the bulk of the agency's surveillance powers. More
Revenge for My Protest?
Forty-five minutes before departure the microphone crackled, the decision on my case was made known, and the woman told me abruptly and without emotion that my entry into the… More
German NSA Critic Denied Entry Into United States
On Sept. 30 the German author Ilija Trojanov was checking in for an American Airlines flight from Salvado de Bahia, Brazil, to Miami, en route to Denver, when he… More
Writer Ilija Trojanov on being unexpectedly barred from the U.S.
Trojanov, who has been unable to find out why his entry was denied -- or, for that matter, anything else from U.S. authorities -- believes he was blocked because… More
PEN Urges Gov’t to Admit Trojanov Into U.S.
In a letter it issued late Tuesday, the PEN American Center is asking the government to revisit its decision to block Bulgarian-German author Ilija Trojanov, who is a vocal… More
PEN Letter Protesting Exclusion of Ilija Trojanov from the U.S.
On September 30, 2013, German PEN member Ilija Trojanov, a Bulgarian-German writer, was denied permission to board a flight from Brazil to the United States. PEN American Center fears… More
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