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
Russian Artist Slava Mogutin Backs Boycott of Sochi Olympics
The artist has asylum in the United States, and he calls the Winter Olympics Putin's "pet project and propaganda vehicle." 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
The Tightening Screws on Press Freedom in Turkey
Erdoğan’s AKP administration has had more than a decade to fix this imbalance in Turkey’s anti-terror legislation. Despite repeated attempts at reform in recent years, the desperate situation in… More
All Eyes On Mexico’s Newly-Empowered Special Prosecutor
Will the federal government's new power to prosecute crimes against journalists finally end the impunity? More
PEN Criticizes Turkey’s Ergenekon Convictions
On Monday, August 5, 2013, the Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 13 decided the fates of 275 individuals who were accused of being part of a coup plot against… More
In My House It is Not a House: An American Poet visits PEN Haiti
PEN member Harriet Levin Millan writes about her inspiring visit to PEN Haiti's new House of Literature, where she held poetry workshops with Haitian and American youth. More
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