Reports: Group of Artists Traveling to U.S. to Attend Their Own Exhibition Face Visa Delays
“The travel ban remains a troubling cornerstone of the current administration, with news like this highlighting ways the government limits cultural and intellectual exchange at the expense of democracy." More
DARE: Donald Trump’s Allies Are Going after Sherrod Brown’s Journalist Wife
America Rising, a leading Republican opposition research group, found to be requesting access to record pertaining to journalist and journalism professor... More
MALAYSIA: Harassment of Cartoonist Escalates
PEN calls for Malaysian authorities to drop all charges against cartoonist Zunar, who was arrested for alleged violations of the Sedition Act and penal code. More
Queer Futures (audio)
The burgeoning African gay rights movement is filled with brave artists and activists. Informative and inspirational, this conversation with prominent African writers will survey today's landscape, challenging preconceived ideas… More
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250+ authors including Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk & Margaret Atwood urge India’s PM to reinstate overseas citizenship of British journalist Aatish Taseer, saying the move “flies in the face of India’s traditions of free and open debate”: https://bit.ly/2Koj4WJ via @guardian.
A Sakharov Prize award ceremony of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, recently released from Russian prison after 5 years, will happen on Nov 26: https://bit.ly/377v0Gc via @KyivPost. Read PEN America’s Polina Kovaleva reflect on her meeting with Oleg: https://bit.ly/2pPGH3r.
"It is a victory for all of us that he is finally free," says PEN America's senior director of Free Expression Programs @summerelopez in reponse to Kurdish-Iranian writer and refugee Behrouz Boochani's release after more than six years of detention: https://bit.ly/2NLKisy.