Mexican Drug Cartels Threaten Freedom Of Press
Luis Carlos Santiago’s last moments were spent in a shopping mall parking lot in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. More
An Evening in Solidarity with Mexican Journalists at PEN American
Paul Auster opened proceedings, reading from the controversial Diario de Juarez editorial published on September 18th this year, after El Diario photographer Luis Carlos Santiago (the second of two… More
Novelist Laura Esquivel reads at event in support of Mexican journos
Novelists Laura Esquivel, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo will be reading next Tuesday at Cooper Union as part of an evening in support of Mexican journalists whose work on… More
Writers Urge U.N. to Abandon Efforts to Prohibit Defamation of Religions
At a panel held in conjunction with the Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, writers and free-expression advocates from around the world today warned of the potential harm of… More
Author takes on China’s premier, aware that free speech…
BEIJING — Yu Jie has picked a fight with the Communist Party of China, and if state security forces haul him away in the dark of night, there will… More
Writers Support Park51 Project, Religious Freedom
PEN American Center, the New York-based center of the 89-year-old international literary and human rights organization PEN, today released a statement in support of the proposed Park51 Community Center… More
Commentary: Torture memos — Accountability everywhere but here?
Eight years ago today, armed with two legal opinions that gutted the prohibition against torture, CIA agents and contractors began the month-long "enhanced interrogation" of Abu Zubaydah in a… More
Colombian Journalist Hollman Morris Granted Visa to Join Harvard Program
A prominent Colombian journalist who was once barred from the United States has been granted a visa to come to this country to study. PEN American Center, the American… More
When U.S. behaves like Cuba, it hurts itself
The U.S. decision to deny a visa to Colombian journalist Hollman Morris, who had been invited to spend an academic year at Harvard University, sounds like a page right… More
Hollman Morris, Colombian Journalist, Says Patriot Act Visa…
A Colombian journalist who was recently denied a visa to study under Harvard University's Nieman Fellowship program says the State Department's decision may put his life under further threat.… More
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