PEN urges Senate to examine Gonzales’s record on torture policies
PEN American Center asked members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today to use this Thursday's hearings on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales as an opportunity to reassert United States… More
Treasury Department Changes Regulations
In September 2004, publishing trade groups and authors' organizations filed suit in federal court to strike down regulations of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control that effectively… More
At the Library
This week I read an article about Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. Ebadi has been prohibited from publishing… More
Bound But Gagged
When I received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, Iranians and Muslims around the world hoped that the prevailing and unfair image of Muslims as terrorists would be discarded.… More
Illegal Trafficking
Most American scholars remain blissfully ignorant of the risks of international collaboration. Yet simply publishing in the United States an article co-written by a colleague from Cuba, Iran, or… More
Nobel Laureate sues U.S.
When Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, President Bush congratulated the Iranian lawyer and children's advocate for "her lifetime championing human rights and democracy." More
Nobel Peace Prize winner joins battle for free speech
Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, has filed suit against the U.S. Treasury Department in federal court in New… More
Right to Publish
A group of American publishers is in federal court, suing an office in the U.S. Treasury Department for what would seem to be their most basic of rights: The… More
PEN protests the recent denial of entry visas to Cuban scholars
Dear Secretary Powell, We are writing on behalf of the 2,700 professional writers, editors, and translators who are members of PEN American Center to register our profound concern over… More
Curb the Thought
The Treasury Department's bone-headed decision not to allow U.S. publishers to edit the works of writers from trade sanctioned countries has ended up in court. One trusts the Constitution,… More
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