Chinese Democracy Advocate Is Freed After 8 Years in Prison
A Chinese journalist and democracy advocate who had been imprisoned since 2005 after Yahoo provided information about his e-mail account to the government in Beijing has been released, his… More
Writers, Lawmakers, and the NRA Support ACLU Challenge to NSA Spying
An impressive array of organizations and individuals filed amicus briefs yesterday in support of the ACLU's constitutional challenge to the government's collection of the call records of virtually everyone… More
Two Views on How Surveillance Harms Writers
Philosopher and former PEN American Center president Kwame Anthony Appiah and Screenwriter Walter Bernstein reflect on what electronic spying means for intellectual and creative freedom More
A Blacklisted Screenwriter on American Surveillance
Screenwriter and producer Walter Bernstein views new revelations of NSA spying through the lens of national and personal history More
PEN Urges Obama to Press Russia on Expression; Russian Writers Speak Out
New laws in Russia barring religious offense and 'homosexual propaganda' are troubling signs of an increasingly restrictive environment for freedom of expression. More
PEN Letter to President Obama in Advance of the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg
PEN sent the following letter to President Obama in advance of the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, to urge him to use the opporutnity to express concern over… More
NGOs Raise Concern Over Freedom of Expression to UN
Seven NGOs have raised their concerns that the government is using the law, media and Internet to further stifle freedom of expression, ahead of Cambodia submitting its first Universal… More
Speech groups slam BBC over Nigel Kennedy “censorship”
Two leading anti-censorship groups have criticized a BBC decision to remove mention of Israeli apartheid by world-renowned violinist Nigel Kennedy from a TV broadcast. More
Fact-finding mission condemns persecution of academics
A fact-finding mission in Turkey by the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, or IHRNASS, has concluded that criminal charges brought against eight leading academics and… More
David Miranda detention prompts outcry over ‘gross misuse’ of terror laws
Journalists, human rights lawyers and civil liberties campaigners condemn Miranda's nine-hour detention at Heathrow More
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