PEN Gives Voice to Silenced Writers in China on Eve of the Olympics
In New York last night, celebrated PEN Members gathered to read banned and censored work by writers in China, including new and never-before translated writings by Tsering Woeser, Yang… More
Rights groups protest China’s pre-Olympics arrests
Human rights groups are calling for the immediate release of Chinese Internet writer Du Daobin after he was rearrested earlier this week, saying his detention is part of a… More
Chinese Writer Du Daobin Re-Arrested as Crackdown Continues
Less than three weeks before the Olympic Games open in Beijing, Chinese authorities have re-arrested writer, former political prisoner, and PEN member Du Daobin and filed formal charges against… More
Please release the Chinese writers in prison
To the Editors: Your readers may be interested in the following petition to the Chinese government, signed by more than 3,500 PEN members and supporters in addition to those… More
Chinese activists fear Olympic ‘holidays’
Li Fangping, a defense lawyer for two of China's well-known human rights cases, expects to be under 24-hour police surveillance during next month's Olympic Games. "I will definitely have… More
China’s Silencing Season
Outside the small restaurant where he was having dinner, Huang Qi saw men he recognized, plainclothes police officers. He got on his cellphone to alert colleagues: Something might happen… More
China Silences Critics as Olympics Near, Report Says
One month before the Aug. 8 start of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, PEN, an international writers' group that monitors human rights abuses, accused the Chinese government of waging… More
Chinese Authorities Detain Writer Zhou Yuanzhi
Zhou Yuanzhi, a writer and member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, has been detained in connection with his writings and could face trial for inciting subversion, a development… More
PEN Calls Press Conference to Announce Delivery of China Petition
Salman Rushdie, Francine Prose, Edward Albee, Rick Moody and Ma Jian will be among the writers attending a press conference Thursday, May 1, at which the PEN American Center… More
Yang Tongyan to Receive 2008 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
PEN American Center today named Chinese dissident writer Yang Tongyan, who is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence, as recipient of its 2008 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. More
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