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Months after President Donald Trump's lawyers slapped Macmillan with a cease-and-desist letter in advance of the publication of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury, the president has done similarly with… More

Two political prisoners are in danger of dying—two people may be dying right now—in Russian prisons. Theirs are two very different stories. One of the dying is a grown… More

Summer Lopez, who previously worked eight years for the U.S. Agency for International Development, is the senior director of free expression programs for PEN America. Oleg Sentsov has not eaten… More

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident, will be honored this fall by PEN America. Ai is to receive the Artistic Expression Award at PEN’s LitFest Gala in Los Angeles,… More

When the acclaimed Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam gave an interview to Al Jazeera on Sunday, he did not have the demeanor of a man who knew he was going… More

"A generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes." That's how Attorney General Jeff Sessions described college students in late July. The Trump administration's Justice Department is diving into the roiling waters… More

Last week, I wrote a post about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s miserable performance at a gathering of high school students — when he had a chance to be a… More

Helsinki (AFP) - Free-expression group PEN America called on US President Donald Trump to raise the fate of a hunger-striking Ukrainian filmmaker at a summit Monday with his Russian… More

(Reuters) - A Myanmar court has charged two Reuters reporters with breaching the colonial-era Official Secrets Act. They face up to 14 years in prison if convicted. Wa Lone, 32,… More

Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, left China in accordance with her own will to seek medical treatment in Germany, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has… More