Miami City Commission’s Ending “One-Way Cultural Exchange” with Cuba an Absurd Approach to Protesting Artistic Repression
Restricting cultural exchange and artistic expression is an absurd way to address the repressive environment for artistic freedom in Cuba. The Miami City Commission is right to be outraged… More
Detention and Harassment of Cuban Artists During the Havana Biennial is Part and Parcel of Efforts to Stamp Out Artistic Freedom
“While the art world is gathering at the XIII Havana Biennial, the repression against Cuban artists who are critical of this restrictive new measure exposes the Cuban Ministry of… More
Institutionalizing Censorship: Cuba’s Decree 349 Poses Expansive Restrictions on Artistic Freedom, PEN America Artists at Risk Connection White Paper Warns
Sounding the alarm on the Cuban government’s grave new policy with potentially catastrophic effects for independent artists, PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) issued Art Under Pressure: Decree… More
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“Chilling”: GOP has introduced 136 “educational gag order” bills in 37 states just this year
"This year's bills have been strikingly more punitive," warns #PENAmerica
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PEN America's @LieslGerntholtz: "The grotesque sentencing of Salma Al-Shehab"—a Saudi student at Leeds University (U.K.) sentenced to 34 years in prison for her Twitter activity—"is yet another abhorrent restriction of free expression in #SaudiArabia." https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-condemns-grotesque-sentencing-of-saudi-student-to-34-years-in-prison-for-her-tweets/
