DARE: House Homeland Security Committee Subpoenas 8chan Owner
The House Homeland Security Committee subpoenas the owner of 8chan, the messaging forum linked to three mass shootings this year, to testify before... More
Burma Political Prisoners Assistance Act Provides Critical Assistance to Imprisoned Journalists
Burma Political Prisoners Assistance Act addresses the 331 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Myanmar at the end of April 2019, and the on-going repression of free speech… More
DARE: Reuters Journalists Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo Receive Pulitzer
Reuters journalists and PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write honorees Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo receive their Pulitzer Prizes in person weeks after being released... More
DARE: Robert L. Bernstein, Publisher and Champion of Dissent, Dies at 96
Robert Bernstein, longtime chairman of Random House and founder of Human Rights Watch, has died. A new survey finds press freedoms for Native American... More
DARE: FBI Says It’s Working with Silicon Valley to Stop Election Meddling
FBI director says agency is significantly increasing its work with Silicon Valley to address foreign influence campaigns targeting the United States... More
DARE: Myanmar Releases Reuters Journalists Jailed for Reporting on Rohingya Crackdown
Reuters journalists and 2018 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award honorees Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo granted amnesty and released from prison. See PEN America... More
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo | Status: Released | Myanmar
Prosecutors have charged the journalists with obtaining important and secret state documents relating to the crisis in Rakhine State, from which some 680,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled since August… More
PEN America Celebrates Reuters Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo’s Amnesty
The decision of Myanmar’s president to grant an amnesty to Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo is a long overdue restoration of freedom for these two brave… More
DARE: A Decade of Implications at Stake, Supreme Court Hears Census Citizenship Question
Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on whether the Trump Administration can include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census, which... More
Myanmar Supreme Court’s Decision to Uphold Convictions of Reuters Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo a Devastating Blow
"With this devastating and wrongful decision, the Myanmar Supreme Court has disappointed not only Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo and their families, but all those who maintained hope… More