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NEW PEN America Report: Digital Censorship and Threats to Creative Expression Rise Against Artists in Asia

Press ReleaseOctober 12, 2022

“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

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PEN America Denounces Disney’s Removal of Simpsons Episode

Press ReleaseNovember 30, 2021

"This type of preemptive self-censorship represents the end-game of all censors: to have the targets of censorship police themselves." More

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Artists at Risk Connection Releases New Podcast, ‘Creating Artistic Resilience: Voices of Asia’

Press ReleaseSeptember 14, 2021

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

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Second Editorial Writer From Defunct Hong Kong Newspaper Arrested

Press ReleaseJune 28, 2021

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

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Amid Hong Kong Paper’s Closure, Apple Daily Editorial Writer Arrested

Press ReleaseJune 25, 2021

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

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Closure of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Is “Death Knell for Independent Media”

Press ReleaseJune 23, 2021

There should be no pretense that this is anything other than a death knell for independent media in Hong Kong. More

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PEN America Calls Hong Kong Newspaper Raid “An Act of War on Press Freedom”

Press ReleaseJune 17, 2021

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

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Charges Against Jimmy Lai, Arrest of Haze Fan are Dual Blows Against Press Freedom

Press ReleaseDecember 11, 2020

“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

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Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Plead Guilty to Charge of ‘Unlawful Assembly’

Press ReleaseNovember 24, 2020

“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

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Hong Kong Activist Arrested Hours After PEN America Event

Press ReleaseSeptember 24, 2020

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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So proud to collaborate with @PENamerica given the mission to support human rights and free expression, including in our schools. Grateful for all their work to support writers and to fight misinformation and disinformation. Check out their important work! https://pen.org https://twitter.com/penamerica/status/1642232215928033281

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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

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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/

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