Writers Call on Attorney General to Drop Risen Subpoena
Efforts to compel journalist James Risen to reveal a confidential source(s) could cement the Obama Administration’s legacy as one of the most hostile to press freedom in U.S. history,… More
Reckoning with Torture: Time for Reflection and Action
The Senate Intelligence Committee report on the use of torture by the CIA in the years after 9/11, which has already drawn telling responses from congressional insiders, was finally… More
Students’ Conviction Serves to Further Punish Jailed Professor Ilham Tohti
Seven of Tohti’s students were sentenced to three-to-eight years in prison this morning on spurious charges of separatism, for which Tohti is also serving a life sentence. Students who… More
Renewed Charges Against Pınar Selek Make a Mockery of Turkish Justice System
Trumped up charges against Selek, a Turkish sociologist and feminist, of involvement in the 1998 Istanbul Spice Bazaar explosion were renewed today at the 15th High Criminal Court in… More
Auction of First Edition Classics Annotated by Their Authors Raises $1 Million to Benefit PEN American Center
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral Top-Seller at $80,000. Underworld by Don DeLillo Fetches Second Highest Bid of $57,000. More
PEN Deplores Upholding of Life Sentence for Ilham Tohti
Today, PEN received the devastating news that Ilham Tohti’s life sentence has been upheld by a closed court in China. More
Noted Authors, Artists Annotate Classic Works for Auction to Benefit PEN American Center
Sixty-one of America’s greatest writers and fourteen world-renowned artists have annotated their own classic works for an auction to benefit PEN American Center. More
After Ferguson, PEN Calls for New Police Guidelines on Media Freedom
The striking number of violations of press freedom during the Ferguson, MO protests reveals an urgent need for better training for police on media freedoms during public demonstrations, PEN… More
Prominent Jordanian-British Poet Turned Away from New York-Bound Flight
The absence of any grounds for his exclusion raises the troubling possibility that Nasser is being punished and silence on the basis of his opinions and writings. More
PEN Presses Turkey to Stop ‘Judicial Harrassment’ of Pınar Selek
The decision of an Istanbul court to proceed with the trial of Turkish sociologist and feminist Pınar Selek 16 years after the start of her legal ordeal is a… More