Chinese Democracy Advocate Is Freed After 8 Years in Prison
A Chinese journalist and democracy advocate who had been imprisoned since 2005 after Yahoo provided information about his e-mail account to the government in Beijing has been released, his… More
Billy Collins Reads Shi TaoŸ??s Ÿ??JuneŸ? as Part of Free Expression Poem Relay
As the Olympic torch reached the U.S., PEN American Center today released a recording of former U.S. Poet Laureate and PEN American Center Vice President Billy Collins reading imprisoned… More
Yahoo Settles Civil Lawsuit with Families of Chinese Cyber-dissidents
PEN American Center today welcomed the news that Yahoo has settled a lawsuit brought by families of Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning, two Chinese cyber-dissidents who were jailed for… More
Tenth anniversary of the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa
Writers around the world in International PEN are commemorating today the life and death of Nigerian writer Ken Saro Wiwa, who was executed ten years ago on November 10,… More
Yahoo! information used to convict Chinese journalist
PEN is alarmed by evidence that information supplied by the Internet Service Provider Yahoo! Inc. was used to convict journalist, poet and dissident writer Shi Tao. More
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