PEN Protests Increased Pressure on Liu Xia
PEN American Center today expressed alarm over reports that Chinese authorities have arrested Liu Xia's brother in China. 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
Activists Break Through Security to Visit Liu Xia
Last Friday, writers, activists, and intellectuals Hu Jia, Xu Youyu, Hao Jian, and Liu Di broke through a security cordon around their friend Liu Xia's apartment in Beijing and… 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
Liu Xia Speaks
Calling a new interview with poet and artist Liu Xia “the haunting, human countermelody to the noise surrounding this year’s Nobel literature prize,” PEN American Center urged the Chinese… More
Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong
Liu Xiaobo was in Hong Kong on Saturday. He sat silent in a frame, on an empty chair, as hundreds of people bent down to him, a sign of… More
You Wait for Me with Dust: Worldwide Reading for Liu Xiaobo
Today, over 100 individuals, organizations, bookstores, and PEN centers are participating in a worldwide reading organized to honor our imprisoned colleague, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo. More
The Silent Strength of Liu Xia
In March 2010, months after Liu Xiaobo was tried and sentenced to 11 years in prison, PEN’s Director of Freedom to Write and International Programs, Larry Siems, came back… More
Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel: One Year Later
Today marks three years since Liu Xiaobo was detained and began an odyssey into China’s legal system, which ruled him a “criminal” for his writings and sent him to… More
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