🧵 In a must-read new column, @Sulliview highlights how PEN America, a defender of the #freedomtowrite around the world for 100 years, is now fighting book bans in the U.S. that have a previously unseen "intensity and scope."

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The fraudulent election of Aleksandr Lukashenka as president of Belarus on August 9, 2020 surprised no one. Two years later, it is more important than ever for the U.S. to continue to call out Lukashenka’s grave human rights abuses, writes @PSadovskaya2020 https://pen.org/two-years-after-the-belarus-election-the-united-states-can-do-more-to-call-out-aleksandr-lukashenkas-abuses/