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Hong Kong Authorities Should Drop Sedition Charges Against Booksellers, PEN America Says

Press ReleaseMarch 15, 2023

“Producing and selling a book about Hong Kong’s 2019 protest movement is not a crime. Hong Kong authorities are attempting to rewrite the history of the protests by arresting… More

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ARC Condemns Arrest of Singer Denise Ho by Hong Kong National Police

Press ReleaseDecember 29, 2021

Earlier today, Hong Kong’s National Police arrested singer and pro-democracy activist Denise Ho at her home on suspicion of violating the colonial-era Crimes Ordinance by allegedly conspiring to release… More

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Second Editorial Writer From Defunct Hong Kong Newspaper Arrested

Press ReleaseJune 28, 2021

Apple Daily editorial writer Fung Wai-kong was reportedly arrested at the Hong Kong airport on Sunday night on suspicion of "foreign collusion to endanger national security." More

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Amid Hong Kong Paper’s Closure, Apple Daily Editorial Writer Arrested

Press ReleaseJune 25, 2021

The arrest of an editorial writer at the Apple Daily represents the deepening criminalization of free expression in Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law. More

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Closure of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Is “Death Knell for Independent Media”

Press ReleaseJune 23, 2021

There should be no pretense that this is anything other than a death knell for independent media in Hong Kong. More

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PEN America Calls Hong Kong Newspaper Raid “An Act of War on Press Freedom”

Press ReleaseJune 17, 2021

PEN America decried the news that Hong Kong police had raided the offices of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and arrested five executives. More

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PEN America Deeply Concerned By Last-Minute Cancelation of Hong Kong Photo Exhibition

Press ReleaseMarch 1, 2021

PEN America is concerned by the last-minute cancelation of a Hong Kong photo exhibit featuring images of the Hong Kong protests. More

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Hong Kong: Human Rights Groups Condemn Mass Arrests

Open LetterJanuary 8, 2021

PEN America and 34 groups and organizations dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights, condemn the arrests of over 50 pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong. More

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Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Plead Guilty to Charge of ‘Unlawful Assembly’

Press ReleaseNovember 24, 2020

“It has been obvious since the start that the charges. . . are a politically motivated attempt to silence the speech of some of Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy activists.” More

Joshua Wong

Hong Kong Activist Arrested Hours After PEN America Event

Press ReleaseSeptember 24, 2020

Joshua has long stood as a symbol of the broad public movement for democracy and freedom in Hong Kong. Any time he is targeted, it is the authorities sending… More

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Educational gag orders represent a serious threat to the very academic autonomy that has allowed for so much intellectual discovery at our institutions. Read the op-ed in @Newsweek by @ACEducation's Ted Mitchell and @PENamerica's @SuzanneNossel.
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