Imprisoning Russian Actor Is a Flagrant Violation of Fundamental Human Rights
“Pavel’s absurd sentence is a demonstration of the Russian government’s cruelty, and disregard for human dignity and the rule of law, even to the extent of refusing to… More
PEN America Welcomes News that New York Public Library Will Not Host Saudi-Sponsored Event
“The New York Public Library has made the right choice to decline hosting this event sponsored by Saudi Arabia, in particular by a man whose government apparatus orchestrated the… More
PEN America Condemns U.S. Decision to Bar Entry to Austrian Academic
"The Department of Homeland Security needs to explain immediately why Thomas Schmidinger was blocked from traveling to the U.S." More
California Gig Worker Bill May Have Unintended Consequences for Press Freedom
"Absent amendment to allow freelancers the flexibility to opt out of the law’s classification, the bill actually stymies opportunity for those who might otherwise benefit from working on a… More
As Part of National Banned Books Week, PEN America to Focus on the Right to Read in the Nation’s Prisons
“With all of our societal focus on how to make the criminal justice system more just and less self-defeating, vindicating the right to read in prison is an obvious… More
Ukrainian Journalist Roman Sushchenko Released from Russian Prison
“Russia’s security services falsely painted Sushchenko as an intelligence plant, a spurious accusation they have repeatedly lodged against reporters who refuse to accept the Kremlin’s party line." More
Resignation of University of Alabama Dean Over Tweets Threatens Free Speech
“It is difficult to see Dr. Riley’s ‘resignation by mutual agreement’ as anything other than a punitive outcome occasioned by the content of his speech." More
FEC Chair to Host Symposium on Digital Disinformation and the Threat to Democracy
The daylong symposium – hosted by FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub, PEN America, and Stanford’s Global Digital Policy Incubator – is designed to frame and understand the risks and challenges… More
Ukrainian Filmmaker Oleg Sentsov Released After More Than Five Years in Russian Prison
“We are jubilant that Oleg is finally free to reunite with his beloved children and to speak his mind.’ More
PEN America to Participate in First-Ever LA Press Freedom Week
"The public is only aware of the horrific treatment of migrants because reporters have put their careers, and sometimes their lives, on the line to cover these stories." More
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Neo-Nazis made her a national target. After months of online harassment, she was diagnosed with PTSD. She sued The Daily Stormer and its creator Andrew Anglin and won a $725,000 judgement she may never see. Then one of her anonymous trolls apologized. https://t.co/qAsCFcDhp7
Amazing! https://t.co/D4kcLvOFGp
Finally something good in the news! Oleg Sentsov, the Ukrainian filmmaker who has been unjustly imprisoned in Russia for five years, has been released! Here I am reading his acceptance letter when he won the @PENamerica #FreedomToWrite award in 2017
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