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Censored by China: Defending Creative Expression in a Global Market

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Statement in Response to Report the FBI is Urging Universities to Monitor Chinese Students and Scholars

Open LetterAugust 12, 2019

China’s government is notorious for its surveillance. Efforts by the U.S. to fend off autocracy must not mimic the very tactics it professes to reject. More

New PEN America Report Shows Growing Pressure on Foreign Correspondents to Bias Coverage in China

Press ReleaseSeptember 22, 2016

NEW YORK—Foreign journalists are operating under intensifying pressure in China during the tenure of President Xi Jinping, impeding transparency and the flow of information essential to the global public… More

Darkended Screen: Constraints in Foreign Journalists in China

Darkened Screen: Constraints on Foreign Journalists in China

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Darkened Screen details how China's government is rewriting the bounds of acceptable coverage for foreign media, constraining the work of foreign journalists and restricting unbiased coverage of the world's most… More

China: Authorities continue to harass journalist Gao Yu and assault son

Press ReleaseApril 1, 2016

Plainclothes police ransacked 72-year-old journalist Gao Yu’s garden and assaulted her son in another cruel and crude attack on press freedom in China, PEN America said today. More

Hong Kong: Bookseller’s Return Welcome News but Colleagues Remain in Detention

Press ReleaseMarch 4, 2016

Bookseller Lui Por’s return to Hong Kong is welcome news, but the continuing detention of his four colleagues is an ongoing violation of free expression and Hong Kong’s constitution,… More

Hong Kong: Disappearances of 5 Associated with Publisher Furthers Concerns about Free Expression

Press ReleaseJanuary 4, 2016

The mysterious disappearances of five men associated with a Hong Kong publisher known for its scathing exposés of Chinese officials drive increasing concern for the fading autonomy of the… More

China Expels French Journalist in Blatant Assault on Foreign Reporting

Press ReleaseDecember 29, 2015

Gauthier wrote an article criticizing Chinese authorities’ efforts to draw a comparison between the terrorist attacks in Paris and the ongoing unrest in China’s Xinjiang province. More

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China: Prominent author, Wang Lixong, barred from travelling

Rapid ActionDecember 23, 2015

PEN is deeply concerned at the news that prominent Chinese author Wang Lixiong was barred from traveling to Japan on 16 December 2015 apparently due to concerns that his… More

China Effectively Ends Career of Prominent Human Rights Lawyer in Continuing Crackdown on Free Speech

Press ReleaseDecember 22, 2015

China’s sentencing of Pu Zhiqiang is the latest example in an ongoing crackdown by President Xi Jinping’s administration against activists, human rights lawyers, and writers. More

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