Appeals Court OKs Challenge to Warrantless Electronic Spying
A legal challenge questioning the constitutionality of a federal law authorizing warrantless electronic surveillance of Americans inched a step closer Wednesday toward resolution. More
Banned Books Week promotes, protects freedom
For the first time, participants in Banned Books Week this year can take part in a worldwide demonstration of the virtues of their favorite censored literature. Launched in 1982… More
Writers Stopped from Attending 10th ICPC Anniversary
The Independent Chinese PEN Center, or ICPC, celebrated its 10th anniversary in Hong Kong earlier this week. However, only three of the fourteen invited writers were able to attend,… More
Authors report worsening persecution by Beijing
The recent banning of six mainland writers from visiting Hong Kong and the barring of two exiled authors from returning to their homeland shows Beijing's latest wave of control… More
Beijing Bars Writers From a Literary Celebration
For Chinese authors who join the international writers’ organization PEN, membership would appear to have very few privileges. Many of its members are subjected to frequent harassment; four of… More
ICPC Celebrates Tenth Anniversary in Shadow of Escalating Repression
As PEN members from around the world gather to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) today in Hong Kong, a number… More
Will Obama honor brave forgotten heroes?
How many Americans remember Sgt. Joseph Darby, the soldier, who while serving in Iraq, revealed photographs showing other members of his company torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib? As a… More
Unsung Heroes
A small gesture can mean a lot. That is the simple but compelling idea animating a drive to gain official honors for the patriots, both civilian and in uniform,… More
Torture and Our House of Mirrors
I went to Washington last week with China on my mind, but came back preoccupied once again with torture. More
Dear President Obama
Arguing that the United States owes a public debt to those who refused to support or participate in torture, PEN American Center has joined with nine other leading human… More
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