DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Citizens, cities, states, and businesses defy White House, commit to Paris climate agreement; free speech on campuses under threat; Putin continues to deny involvement in U.S. election, and more… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
The Trump administration's plans for the NEA and NEH, Fox News retracts fake news, student's commencement speech at the University of Maryland sparks debate in China, and more. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Turkey brings in U.S. ambassador over brawl outside of embassy, Trump Cabinet Secretary ignores repression in Saudi Arabia, and more. More
Eşber Yağmurdereli | Status: Released | Turkey
Blind playwright, poet, short story author, screenwriter, and lawyer, Eşber Yağmurdereli has been in and out of prison since 1978 and was the 1999 recipient of the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith… More
DARE To Be Informed
Trump tried to jail journalists, Turkish security officers attack American protesters, and a sixth journalist dies in Mexico since March. Stay up to date on the latest free expression… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
A reporter is manhandled by FCC guards as the commission votes to overturn net neutrality rules, President Erdogan looks out as security beats protesters in front of him, and… More
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu | Status: Deceased | Turkey
Founder of Turkey’s Freedom to Publish Committee, Ayşe Nur Zarakolu was a political essayist, the director of Belge Publishing House, and the only woman publishing director in Turkey at… More
TURKEY: Cumhuriyet Daily Web Editor Arrested
PEN is deeply concerned about the arrest of Cumhuriyet daily web editor Oğuz Güven, bringing the number of Cumhuriyet staff currently jailed pending trial to 13. Güven was arrested… More
Turkey/US: Violence on US Soil an Example of Turkey’s Intolerance of Dissent
NEW YORK—Reports of Turkish President Erdogan’s guards engaging in violence against protestors in Washington DC provide a troubling example of Erdogan’s intolerance of dissent and disrespect for free expression… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Washington Post and New York Times break records, Trump allegedly pressured Comey to investigate journalists while the DOJ seeks to prosecute leakers, and more. More