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More than 100 writers, actors and activists have signed an open letter urging the UN to launch an independent investigation Meryl Streep, JK Rowling and Zadie Smith have all added… More

Three years after the disappearance of five Hong Kong publishers, the last bookshop on the island still selling books banned on the Chinese mainland has closed – ending a… More

More than 200 journalists condemned President Trump’s “sustained pattern” of attacks on the free press in an open letter dated Thursday, describing his behavior as “un-American and utterly unlawful… More

The European Union says Sentsov, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia, is a symbol for all political prisoners held in Russia. Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who is serving… More

Listen to the Brian Lehrer show, and Suzanne Nossel's conversation, here. Coming up on today's show Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent, on the latest headlines out of Washington, D.C. New… More

For those of us who knew Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia’s announcement—tweeted in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Riyadh time—is infuriating. It confirmed Khashoggi’s death—a “painful outcome,” it said—and blithely reversed… More

Groups call on Trump to apologise after saying Greg Gianforte is 'my kind of guy' for body-slamming a reporter in 2017. Journalists and others are calling for US President Donald… More

The novelist Jennifer Egan has branded Donald Trump’s praise for a Republican who attacked a Guardian reporter “horrifying”, after the writers’ organisation PEN America filed a lawsuit against the… More

Trump is giving Saudi Arabia the benefit of the doubt, despite signs that there was likely high-level Saudi government involvement. Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s final Washington Post column was published on Wednesday night. His editor,… More

Early this week, the writers’ coalition, PEN America, sued President Trump in federal court. Trump “has made eminently clear his disdain for the press and the legal protections the First… More