Raif Badawi | Status: Conditional Release | Saudi Arabia
Raif Badawi is a blogger from Saudi Arabia and the editor of the website Liberal Saudi Network. More
PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel Testifies in the House on Human Rights and Saudi Arabia
“The regime’s determination to hunt down dissenters wherever they are instills a sense of fear from which there is no escape, even far beyond Saudi borders.” More
20 Saudi Voices the Regime Has Attempted to Silence
Saudi Arabia has continuously glossed over its attempts to silence and imprison dissidents who have spoken out. Here are 20 Saudi voices that the regime has attempted to silence. More
Saudi Arabia: Raif Badawi spends his 2000th day behind bars
PEN condemns the ongoing arbitrary detention of blogger Raif Badawi, currently serving a 10-year sentence in Saudi Arabia. PEN is also deeply concerned that the Saudi government will continue the lashing… More
PEN Québec: A New Generation on a Familiar Quest for Literary Identity
There’s always a quest for identity. Whichever way you look at it, I feel that every writer in Québec is somehow drawn to this question. More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thursday, October 27
Journalist prevented from speaking in Qatar Indian journalist Rana Ayyub, who authored a book on the 2002 Gujarat riots, was prevented from speaking at an event organised by the Indian… More
Free Expression Digest: Mon., April 11
Man executed in Somalia for journalist killings, Syrian journalist wounded in attack in Turkey, Official: Al Qaeda not behind secular blogger’s murder. More
Free Expression Digest: Wed., January 20
Swedish activist 'confesses' on Chinese television, Amal Clooney offers to take Azerbaijani journalist's case, Canada says it will not grant citizenship to imprisoned Saudi blogger. More
Free Expression Digest: Fri., January 15
Wife of Saudi blogger makes plea to Canada, Azerbaijani activist sentenced, Chinese media downplays Taiwan presidential election. More
Chimamanda Adichie, Neil Gaiman, and More Join PEN in Urging President Obama to Press Saudi Arabia on Poet Sentenced to Beheading
NEW YORK—Seventy-one of the most prominent names in international literature and art have joined PEN America in an open letter to President Obama today, urging him to take up… More
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Texas Observer will continue publishing after staff crowdfunds more than $300,000.
The crusading liberal magazine had planned to lay off its staff after its nonprofit board voted to shut down. But it reversed course on Wednesday.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/29/texas-observer-keep-publishing/
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Russian authorities have put Nadya Tolokonnikova (@nadyariot), a member of the @pussyrrriot punk group on a most wanted list for criminal suspects as the Kremlin works to stifle political dissent. The criminal charges Tolokonnikova faces are not specified. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-russia-most-wanted-list-criminals-1235294889/