PEN International Launches Report on Creative Freedom in China
On World Press Freedom Day, PEN International launched The PEN Report: Creativity and Constraint in Today’s China: a frank assessment of the climate of freedom of expression in the… More
Top PEN Prize to Honor Jailed Turkish Translator Ayşe Berktay
PEN American Center names Ayşe Berktay as the recipient of its 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. More
PEN Protests Increased Pressure on Liu Xia
PEN American Center today expressed alarm over reports that Chinese authorities have arrested Liu Xia's brother in China. More
PEN International to UN: Mexican Journalists Still Endangered Despite Reforms
Three years after Mexico accepted United Nations recommendations for combating violence against journalists and eradicating impunity for human rights violations, “the rate at which journalists are being attacked and… More
PEN Decries Supreme Court Surveillance Decision
PEN American Center today denounced a Supreme Court ruling that scuttles a challenge by PEN and other human rights groups to the government’s secret telephone and Internet surveillance program,… More
PEN Calls for Protection for Threatened Azerbaijani Writer
PEN today expressed serious concern for the safety of prominent Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli, who is the target of an increasingly hostile campaign in which a lawmaker has promised… More
PEN Decries Harsh Sentencing of Eskinder Nega
New York City, July 13, 2012—PEN American Center reacted angrily to the sentencing of journalist Eskinder Nega to 18 years in prison on bogus terrorism charges in Ethiopia, calling… More
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