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PEN America Calls for the Immediate Release of Vietnamese Human Rights Defender Pham Doan Trang, and Raises Grave Concerns For Her Health

Press ReleaseAugust 22, 2022

“The unjust imprisonment of Pham Doan Trang on the arbitrary charge of anti-state propaganda is, unfortunately, another example of the Vietnamese government’s persecution of journalists and human rights defenders… More

Grave Concern for Poet Zhang Guiqi, Sentenced to Six Years in Prison, for Calling on Xi Jinping to Step Down

Press ReleaseAugust 18, 2022

PEN America and the Independent Chinese PEN Centre condemn the conviction of poet Zhang Guiqi and calls for his immediate release. More

PEN America Condemns “Grotesque” Sentencing of Saudi Student to 34 Years in Prison for Her Tweets

Press ReleaseAugust 17, 2022

PEN America condemns the imprisonment of Salma Al-Shehab, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for her Twitter activity. More

On World Press Freedom Day, PEN America Welcomes Congressional Resolution to Affirm Critical Role of Journalists

Press ReleaseMay 3, 2022

Nadine Farid Johnson, PEN America’s Washington director, said: “Journalists are operating under increasingly oppressive and dangerous conditions, yet their role in upholding the most basic tenets of democracy has… More

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PEN America Announces $10 Million Gift from Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust at the Arizona Community Foundation to Create Freedom to Write Center

Press ReleaseOctober 29, 2021

The literary and free expression group PEN America announced today that it has received a transformative gift of $10 million from the Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust. More

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Another bit of sound legal judgement this week, from TX, where a judge found that conservative library board members had likely exercised unconstitutional content-based restrictions when banning books from the Llano public library. The books ordered back.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/31/texas-llano-library-books/

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Talking to @AliVelshi, historian @TimothyDSnyder likens book bans in #Florida to Communism: “All this stuff is supposed to be anti-communist but as a historian of communism, that reminds me of some of the basic things that were wrong about communism.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yale-professor-ron-desantis-book-bans_n_642696c7e4b02a8d518df5a9

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Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted today of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights. Mackey sent fraudulent messages encouraging supporters of Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media which was legally invalid. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer-douglass-mackey-convicted-election-interference-2016

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