PEN protests Ashcroft comments on librarians, urges repeal of Patriot Act
Dear Mr. Ashcroft, We are writing to protest in the strongest possible terms your recent speech deriding the concerns that librarians, booksellers, and other organizations have expressed over Section… More
Letters protest disciplining teacher for assigning Russell Banks book
Dear Chancellor Klein: As you may recall, we wrote you last January about a censorship incident at Brooklyn Tech High School involving the Russell Banks novel, Continental Drift. More… More
Congress must safeguard Americans’ freedom to read, book community says
PEN, the worldwide association of professional writers, today joined with colleagues from the publishing, bookselling and library communities in calling upon Congress to safeguard one of our most cherished… More
PEN announces year-long freedom of expression and impunity campaign
PEN, the worldwide association of professional writers, marked International Human Rights Day by announcing a year-long campaign to challenge impunity for violations of the essential right to freedom of… More
Book groups protest secrecy on bookstore, library subpoenas
Groups representing authors, book publishers, and booksellers have criticized the Justice Department for refusing to reveal publicly how many times it has used its power under the U.S.A. PATRIOT… More
PEN fights Bush executive order on presidential papers
PEN American Center has joined the legal battle to reverse President Bush's executive order limiting access to presidential papers and to authorize the National Archives to administer the Presidential… More
PEN seeks quick action by Fox administration following IACHR ultimatum
Representatives from PEN centers in North America and Europe called on President Vicente Fox to comply with the two-day deadline the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued… More
PEN opposes preliminiary injunction halting publication of The Wind Done Gone
PEN American Center, the national association of writers, today joined a number of First Amendment and anti-censorship organizations in calling on a Federal Appeals Court to reverse a lower… More
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Consultants for Florida Power & Light, the largest electric utility in the US, conducted surveillance on a Jacksonville journalist. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/24/a-florida-power-company-didnt-like-a-journalists-commentary-its-consultants-had-him-followed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#CUBA: PEN International, @PENamerica and @PENCubaExilio condemn “cruel and inhumane” prison sentences imposed without “legal merit” on Cuban artist-activists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel “Osorbo” Castillo Pérez: https://pen-international.org/news/prison-sentences-for-luis-manuel-and-maykel-osorbo-condemned @PEN_LAC
