PEN to Russia: Human Rights Orgs are not “Foreign Agents”
PEN International and 21 other international human rights and free expression organizations have issued an open letter to the Russian Duma protesting a draft law that would label non-governmental… More
PEN to Russia: Human Rights Orgs are not “Foreign Agents”
[caption id="attachment_14703" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Vladimir Putin"][/caption] PEN International and 21 other international human rights and free expression organizations have issued an open letter to the Russian Duma protesting a draft… More
Russian PEN: Protesting Anti-Protest Legislation
News this week that Russian authorities had arrested more protestors and that teams of investigators raided the homes of blogger Aleksei Navalny, television star Kseniya Sobchak, and other prominent… More
Russian PEN: Protesting Anti-Protest Legislation
[caption id="attachment_13392" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Russian protestors clash with riot police in Moscow"][/caption] News this week that Russian authorities had arrested more protestors and that teams of investigators raided the homes… More
Bearing Witness in Chechnya: The Legacy of Natalia Estemirova
PEN American Center - one of the world's oldest literary and human rights organizations - joins forces with the Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),… More
Russian PEN at risk
PEN American Center is deeply concerned about recent charges brought against Russian PEN that could force the center to close. Russian PEN’s assets have been frozen after allegations that… More
PEN Protests Action Against Russian PEN Center
PEN American Center expressed alarm today that a Russian court has frozen all assets of the Russian PEN Center under allegations that the organization failed to pay land tax.… More
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Bots appeared to target not just the most prominent feminist accounts, but also users with smaller followings who had engaged with Iranian feminists’ content by liking, posting, or sharing it. https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/iran-activists-instagram-protests/
We share @L4L_INT & others’ grave concerns for #XuZhiyong and #DingJiaxi’s human rights amid their arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, torture, and closed-door trials. China must immediately release Xu and Ding, who both face life in prison on sham “subversion” charges.
