Writers Support Park51 Project, Religious Freedom
PEN American Center, the New York-based center of the 89-year-old international literary and human rights organization PEN, today released a statement in support of the proposed Park51 Community Center… More
Colombian Journalist Hollman Morris Granted Visa to Join Harvard Program
A prominent Colombian journalist who was once barred from the United States has been granted a visa to come to this country to study. PEN American Center, the American… More
Free Speech Groups Ask Sec. Clinton to Review Exclusion of Colombian Journalist
The American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Professors and PEN American Center today sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing alarm over reports that… More
Increased Patriot Act Oversight Is Welcome News for Reader Privacy Advocates
The Campaign for Reader Privacy, which has been fighting to restore privacy safeguards for library and bookstore records that were stripped away by the Patriot Act, warmly welcomed an… More
Book Groups See Progress on Patriot Act
The Campaign for Reader Privacy today declared that progress is being made in the fight to restore the safeguards for the privacy of bookstore and library records that were… More
PEN Celebrates Victory in Tariq Ramadan Case
PEN American Center welcomed the news today that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders effectively ending the exclusion of Swiss Scholar Tariq Ramadan from the United… More
Book Groups Support Patriot Act Reform Bill in House
The Campaign for Reader Privacy today urged its supporters to contact members of the House of Representatives in support of a bill that would effectively ban the government from… More
Book Groups Praise Reader Privacy Protections in House Patriot Act Bill
The Campaign for Reader Privacy today welcomed a new House bill that will restore important reader privacy protections that were eliminated eight years ago by the USA Patriot Act.… More
Book Groups Seek Meaningful Reader Privacy Protection
Groups representing librarians, booksellers, authors, and publishers, who have been working together for five years to restore the safeguards for reader privacy that were eliminated by the USA Patriot… More
Writers Press for Accountability on Torture
Writers took the stage with lawyers and former interrogators last night to read from the mounting public record documenting the torture of detainees in U.S. custody since September 11,… More