PEN Staff Calls on Egypt to #FreeAJStaff
PEN staff has joined a journalist-led "selfie" Twitter campaign calling on Egypt to free three Al Jazeera journalists arrested in December, and declaring that journalism is not a crime.… More
Letter to the UN: The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
The Global Network Initiative has written to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of an expert seminar on the right to privacy in the digital… More
Myanmar Writers Free; Their Words are Not
In a worrying slide for free expression, PEN Myanmar takes a stand as prominent writers are banned from events on religious and political grounds. More
Optimism in Check, Nihilism at Bay
With the Olympics now underway in Sochi, the world is forced to view a country where the freedoms of its citizens have undergone abrupt and tragic erosions in the… More
India: Writers Defend Best-Selling Book
PEN Members in India have expressed their concern at reports that Penguin has agreed to withdraw Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History from circulation. More
ICPC Member Li Jianhong Conditionally Released from Detention
UPDATE: Writer Li Jianhong, a member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) who served as its Writers in Prison Committee Coordinator until the end of 2013, was conditionally… More
Freedom of Expression Under Threat in Egypt as Journalists Languish in Prison
PEN calls on Egypt’s interim government to comply with its international obligations to respect freedom of expression, and to release anyone held solely for the peaceful exercise of their… More
What Would Vladimir Putin Do?
What would Brian Boitano do? He'd parody some lyrics to highlight free expression violations in Russia, of course. More
The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance
PEN joins an international day of action to fight mass government surveillance. Find out how you can make a difference. More