NEW PEN America Report: Digital Censorship and Threats to Creative Expression Rise Against Artists in Asia
“In the last two years, we have witnessed a steady rise in threats and persecution of artists across Asia, a trend where governments are deliberately targeting and silencing cultural… More
PEN America Denounces Disney’s Removal of Simpsons Episode
"This type of preemptive self-censorship represents the end-game of all censors: to have the targets of censorship police themselves." More
Artists at Risk Connection Releases New Podcast, ‘Creating Artistic Resilience: Voices of Asia’
In a limited-run podcast Creating Artistic Resilience: Voices of Asia from PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection, five artists and cultural rights defenders from Myanmar, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the… More
Second Editorial Writer From Defunct Hong Kong Newspaper Arrested
Apple Daily editorial writer Fung Wai-kong was reportedly arrested at the Hong Kong airport on Sunday night on suspicion of "foreign collusion to endanger national security." More
Amid Hong Kong Paper’s Closure, Apple Daily Editorial Writer Arrested
The arrest of an editorial writer at the Apple Daily represents the deepening criminalization of free expression in Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law. More
Closure of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Is “Death Knell for Independent Media”
There should be no pretense that this is anything other than a death knell for independent media in Hong Kong. More
PEN America Calls Hong Kong Newspaper Raid “An Act of War on Press Freedom”
PEN America decried the news that Hong Kong police had raided the offices of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and arrested five executives. More
Charges Against Jimmy Lai, Arrest of Haze Fan are Dual Blows Against Press Freedom
“Jimmy Lai is being treated as an enemy of the state for the apparent ‘crime’ of speaking his mind about the city he loves." More
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Plead Guilty to Charge of ‘Unlawful Assembly’
“It has been obvious since the start that the charges. . . are a politically motivated attempt to silence the speech of some of Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy activists.” More
Hong Kong Activist Arrested Hours After PEN America Event
Joshua has long stood as a symbol of the broad public movement for democracy and freedom in Hong Kong. Any time he is targeted, it is the authorities sending… More
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A woman in France is to be tried on charges of insulting President Macron after describing him as 'filth' in a Facebook post.
"I asked the (police) if it was a joke, I had never been arrested," she said. "I am not public enemy number one." https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230329-french-woman-faces-trial-for-insulting-macron-on-facebook #FreeSpeech
In her debut collection My Dear Comrades, Sunu Chandy (@sunuchandy) draws from her many disciplines—#poetry, #law, #activism—to invite the reader into a space that resists boundaries while living among them.
Learn more in her new #PENTen interview: https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-sunu-chandy/