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A Bangladeshi human rights lawyer on Wednesday said he sought police protection after complaining about death threats received for writing about and advocating for his country’s LGBT community. More

Deutsche Welle itself could soon face further restrictions, as it emerged this week that Moscow may force the German state-backed media group to register as a foreign agent in… More

College campuses nationwide have seen an escalating number of anti-Semitic incidents over the past several years, but academics, experts and politicians remain divided on how to combat them. More

“Yang Tongyan’s death, so soon after that of Liu Xiaobo, is another black mark on the Chinese authorities’ human rights record,” said Karin Karlekar, PEN America’s Director of Free… More

Trump’s focus on “America First,” human rights watchers say, means he is loath to deviate from conversations on trade and North Korean aggression. More

A letter issued through the writer's organization PEN America asks that China remove restrictions on Liu Xia's freedom of movement and allow her to meet freely with whomever she… More

More than 50 prominent international authors have written a letter to Chinese president Xi Jinping urging him to free Liu Xia, the wife of deceased Nobel Peace Prize laureate… More

Liu Xia, a poet, painter and photographer, has been under house arrest in China since 2010 despite never having been charged with any crime. More

That a campus may offer a forum for abhorrent views does not require it to be silent on the content of those opinions. By speaking out forcefully to repudiate… More

"We are in a period of tumult on campus when controversial speakers and protests in response are racking up huge security bills," said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN… More