“They’re Bullying a Book About Bullying”: Children’s Author Responds to North Carolina Book Censorship
After a North Carolina school system yanked the book Jacob’s New Dress out of a first-grade lesson on what to do when someone is bullied, author Lesléa Newman' first… More
Free Expression Digest: Tues., November 24
Gao Yu appeals sentence for "leaking state secrets", Russian journalist assaulted, and a court gives a Bahraini photographer ten years in prison. More
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We're calling for the immediate release of Chinese dissident poet Wang Zang and his wife. His arrest is a strike at the heart of free expression and artistic freedom in China. https://bit.ly/3iXaEVJ
TODAY: Join PEN America, @HumanitiesGC, @CullmanNYPL, & @segalcenter for the 20th & final week of Translating the Future, w/ "Translating for a World on Fire" w/ Maria Dahvana Headley & Emily Wilson, joined in conversation by LTAC Director Susan Bernofsky. https://bit.ly/3cakHEk
Two small political parties in Myanmar have accused the country's election commission of censoring their campaign speeches to be aired on state broadcast media before general elections in November. https://bit.ly/30jCXq7