PEN Joins Fight for Net Neutrality to Promote Creative Freedom
PEN joined the fight to keep the Internet open and promote creative freedom in a letter to the FCC today. More
King, Obama, and Surveillance Today
As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, it’s worth remembering not only King’s activism but also the actions by our own government to suppress his vision.FBI Director J.… More
Tech Companies Pass Free Expression Stress Test, with Room for Improvement
An independent assessment finds that three giant tech firms are making a good-faith effort to protect free expression and privacy. What does this mean for writers? More
PEN Protects Your Writing in the Cloud by Joining Coalition for ECPA Reform
The U.S. government thinks it can read your writing in the cloud without a warrant. You can help us stop them. More
Calling All Journalists: Free Digital Security Training Workshops
This week, German media development nonprofit DW Akademie is offering Digital Security Training Workshops to help journalists protect themselves online. More
Thanksgiving Human Rights Advocacy Roundup
Important resolutions at the UN on protecting journalists and privacy; a PEN lawsuit to fight dragnet surveillance; a u-turn on censorship on Skype in China; and a PEN event… More
Rodney Sieh | Status: Released | Liberia
Rodney Sieh, founder of FrontPageAfrica, is a Liberian journalist with over seventeen years’ experience working in Liberia and abroad. More
PEN Joins All-Star Coalition to Protect Digital Freedoms
PEN American Center today announced that it has joined Facebook, Google, Human Rights Watch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as… More
Three Lessons on Digital Circumvention from Canada
Our Freedom to Write Fellow shares three lessons on circumvention from a landmark digital freedom conference hosted by the research activist group Citizen Lab. More