Liu Xia Pens Open Letter to Xi Jinping
On June 12, 2013, Liu Xia, under house arrest since her husband Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2010, penned an open letter to Chinese President… More
South African President Drops Defamation Suits Against Zapiro and Media Outlets
In a victory for free expression, South African President Jacob Zuma has dropped 14 defamation lawsuits totaling R60 million against a famous cartoonist and various media outlets. More
Liu Xia’s Brother Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
On Sunday, June 9, hours after Xi Jinping and Barack Obama wrapped up their two-day Sunnylands summit, a Chinese court sentenced Liu Hui, the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace… More
Freedom Begins at Home
The U.S. government remains leery of having the lens of global scrutiny over human rights practices trained on its own conduct. While the State Department's report on country performance… More
Obama’s Surveillance State
The trauma of the wrongly accused is not the only damage wrought by massive and intrusive surveillance; these programs may also harm those who are watched accidentally and mindlessly… More
Will the Armies of Censorship Wear Flip Flops?
At Facebook, a legion of flip flop-wearing staff are on the front lines of free expression battles. Is this a good thing? More
New Approach Needed in Leak Investigations
PEN American Center warns that overzealous investigations in the U.S. threaten press freedom and free expression abroad as well. More
Remember Tiananmen
As Milan Kundera famously wrote, “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” More
PEN’s Letter to President Obama on Press Freedom and Leak Investigations
PEN American Center is deeply disturbed by expanding encroachments on press freedom in the United States in the name of leak investigations, and by the increasingly aggressive nature of… More
Dignity of Lentil Soup
Michele Zackheim's profile on Russian writer and activist Stanislav Dmitrievsky, whose book may soon be banned by authorities. If found to be "extremist" in nature, Dmitrievsky himself will be… More
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