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Global Writers and Filmmakers Call for Bahari’s Release
Nearly 300 of the world's most respected authors, filmmakers, and journalists have put their names to petitions this week calling on the Iranian government to release NEWSWEEK correspondent and… More
Iran: A Conversation About the Elections, Protests, and Future
As the political firestorm unleashed by Iran’s June 12 presidential elections appears far from over, Carnegie co-hosted a conversation on Iran with PEN American Center, The New York Review… More
Talking Iran
PEN American Center, The New York Review of Books and the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center will host a discussion about the Iranian elections; the program is set… More
New Calls for Writer’s Release
HONG KONG—Human rights groups and a prominent Chinese American author are calling on the Chinese government to release dissident and writer Liu Xiaobo, who drafted a document last year… More
US House Speaker slams China arrest of democracy advocate
WASHINGTON - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged worldwide condemnation of China's decision to arrest prominent pro-democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo. "The decision by the Chinese government to… More
China Rejects International Concern for Jailed Dissident
The Chinese government is rejecting international concerns over jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo and calls for his immediate release, saying the case is strictly an internal affair of China. … More
Learning the limits of “freedom” in China
BEIJING – When Liu Xia moved into her new flat here at the beginning of the year, Beijing's security police moved in too. Not directly into her apartment, mind… More
The Crisis and How to Deal with It
Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on… More
Assessing the fallout from Tiananmen
The bloody scars of the past have been airbrushed out of the photo and those who try to draw attention to that cleansing of the historical record have been… More
The Poet in an Unknown Prison
On April 16, the PEN American Center named the Beijing-based writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo the recipient of the 2009 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. The award honors… More
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