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
Literary Group Asks Obama to Intercede for Condemned Writers in Saudi Arabia
A petition from dozens of authors was sent to President Obama on Wednesday asking him to press Saudi Arabia to pardon a prominent poet condemned to beheading and a… More
Free Expression Digest: Tues., December 15
Blogger Raif Badawi moved to 'final' Saudi prison, Thai court rejects petition to free critic, Egypt extends journalist's detention for second time. More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thurs., October 29
Blogger Raif Badawi gets Sakharov Prize, BBC journalist's laptop seized, and 155 Ghanaian journalists call for sanctions against presidential aide. More
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The Philippines will reimpose a stricter coronavirus lockdown in and around the capital for two weeks from Tuesday, President Rodrigo Duterte announced, as the country struggles to contain infections that have jumped to more than 100,000 cases. https://bit.ly/2Xq8apQ
Join PEN America & @usc_uschina on 8/5 for a discussion of PEN America's upcoming report on how Chinese censors have spread their influence across filmmaking in the U.S. — incl. recommendations for how Hollywood can chart a better path forward: https://bit.ly/30tYkFH.