IRAN: Prominent Kurdish Filmmaker Keywan Karimi Summoned to Serve Sentence
PEN calls on the Iranian authorities to quash filmmaker Keywan Karimi’s conviction. Karimi is currently serving one year's imprisonment and is required to receive 223 lashes by Tehran Revolutionary… More
AUSTRALIA: Process Kurdish Iranian Journalist’s Asylum Claim
PEN America urges the Australian government to process the asylum claim of Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish Iranian journalist. Boochani has been held in Australia’s offshore Manus Island Regional Processing… More
India: Remove Blanket Ban on Kashmir Newspaper
PEN calls for the ongoing blanket ban on the Kashmir Reader to be overturned. Imposed in the context of unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, the ban has been justified… More
One Year On, Hong Kong Publishing Industry in Jeopardy After Bookseller Abduction
HONG KONG—The abduction of five Hong Kong booksellers by Chinese authorities in late 2015 has sounded alarm bells within Hong Kong's nearly $2 billion publishing industry and spurred fear… More
Turkey: Sweeping Crackdown Further Tightens Free Expression
The shuttering of media outlets and arrests of journalists over the past several days signal a dramatic worsening of the already-restricted environment for free expression, PEN America said today. More
November Featured Cases: Sprawling Censorship in Russia
Anna Politkovskaya, Grigory Pasko, and Alexey Kungurov More
Iran: Journalist to Serve Up to 10 More Years in Prison
PEN is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Narges Mohammadi. More
Turkey: Evrensel Daily correspondent Cemil Uğur is Arrested on Terror Charges
PEN calls for Cemil Uğur's immediate and unconditional release. More
PEN Estonia: Raising Popularity of Women’s Writing
The women writers are gaining ground. Books by women and girls are popular and writing is popular with women. We have many wonderful ones but let me introduce two… More
Turkey: Authors, academics, and publishers from around the world rally to call for the release of writers Ahmet and Mehmet Altan
Prominent writer Ahmet Altan and his brother, academic Mehmet Altan, were arrested in a dawn raid on September 10. In the following letter, writers from around the world protest… More