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Liu Xia, the widow of late Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, arrived in Germany on Tuesday after growing international pressure for her release from eight years of house arrest, an extrajudicial confinement that… More

MYANMAR’S rule of law is hanging in the balance today as a court is expected to hand down a decision as to whether the charges involving the two Reuters… More

A judge in Myanmar ruled on Monday that two jailed Reuters reporters would face trial, a decision widely seen as a setback for free speech in a country led… More

President Donald Trump receives his intelligence briefing, and then has lunch with Vice President Mike Pence at 12:30 p.m. The president is scheduled to announce his nominee to replace retired… More

WHEN PEOPLE STOP SPEAKING OUT AND WRITING ABOUT PARTICULAR TOPICS DUE TO FEAR OF REPRISAL, EVERYONE LOSES — FROM THE PEN AMERICA ONLINE HARASSMENT FIELD MANUAL Imagine going to pick… More

The PEN Center USA’s Emerging Voices Fellowship is open for applications through August 1. PEN America has announced the opening of the 2019 Emerging Voices Fellowship application. The Emerging Voices… More

The Toronto film festival and the Canadian city's Luminato arts event are the latest to issue statements calling for the release of Oleg Sentsov. The Toronto International Film Festival and… More

AS YOU settle down to watch the World Cup in Russia, remember Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director serving a 20-year sentence in a prison camp in Siberia. He… More

Oleg Sentsov, the Ukraine filmmaker who was convicted in 2015 of plotting terrorist attacks and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian prison, is on day 24 of a… More

An especially lustrous group of authors, journalists, and activists has signed a letter to Vladimir Putin, conveying from PEN America a demand for the release of Oleg Sentsov, the… More