PEN at the UN Human Rights Council: Nigeria on the Brink
Nigeria's burgeoning democracy, on the cusp of a digital revolution, faces dangerous threats to journalists and censorship. More
PEN at the UN Human Rights Council: End Impunity for the Killing of Mexican Journalists
PEN will press Mexico at the UN Human Rights Council to provide better protection for journalists and writers, with 46 killed since 2006. More
Ethiopia’s lone opposition MP warns of backlash against authoritarianism
Girma Seifu Maru says government could face violent struggle if it fails to open up to critical voices More
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