A Protest On Behalf of Ai Weiwei Grows In Brooklyn
The issue of free expression in China is coming to Brooklyn, riding the wave of the world's most famous dissident artist, Ai Weiwei. While the Brooklyn Museum gears up… More
Imprisoned Uighur scholar receives literary honor
NEW YORK (AP) — Ilham Tohti, the economist and activist imprisoned by Chinese authorities, has been awarded a Freedom to Write Award by the PEN American Center. More
Welcome Home, Shi Tao
When I started at PEN nearly six years ago, Shi Tao was one of my first priority cases. Now, he's finally free. More
PEN’s Letter to Chinese Authorities Protesting the Treatment of Liu Xia
March 29, 2013XI Jinping Guojia ZhuxiPresidentThe State Council General Office2 FuyoujieXichengquBeijingshi 100017People’s Republic of ChinaLI Keqiang Guojia ZongliPremierThe State Council General Office2 FuyoujieXichengquBeijingshi 100017People’s Republic of ChinaFax: +86 10… More
Activists Break Through Security to Visit Liu Xia
In a video, Liu Xia who is under house arrest, can at times be seen smiling as she's greeted by friends who broke through a security cordon around her… More
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On the Anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s Arrest
It was disappointing to watch Mo Yan gloss over China’s systematic censorship—censorship he has had to navigate throughout his career—during his official Nobel Prize lecture today in Stockholm. It… More
Dolma Kyab | Status: Released | China/Tibet Autonomous Region
Dolma Kyab is a writer and teacher in his native Tibet, born in 1976. After protests and riots broke out in Lhasa in March 2008, Dolma Kyab was reportedly… More
Author takes on China’s premier, aware that free speech…
BEIJING — Yu Jie has picked a fight with the Communist Party of China, and if state security forces haul him away in the dark of night, there will… More
PEN Petitions China
With its annual World Voices Festival of International Literature coming to town next week, PEN American Center, the human rights organization for writers, is focusing on China as the… More
‘If the Games Fail, Human Rights Will Suffer’
With the Olympic Games rapidly approaching, more attention than ever is being focused on China's handling of protests in Tibet and on the state of human rights in the… More
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