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PEN International Condemns Killings of Journalists and Attacks on Media during Israeli Offensive in Gaza
PEN International condemns the killings and the reported deliberate targeting of certain journalists, media organizations, and their infrastructures that have…
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This Week in Free Expression: August 8, 2014
Facebook may meet a sorry fate in Vietnam, Austria, and Russia due to internet censorship, while freedom of the press…
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Reckoning with Torture: Awaiting the Senate Torture Report
After a years-long wait, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture is expected to be released. This report is…
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BANNED: ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’
The Cape Henlopen, DE, school board took emily m. danforth’s critically acclaimed novel ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ off the…
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PEN South Africa Protests Sentencing of Swazi Editor
PEN South Africa protests the sentencing Swazi journalist Bheki Makhubu, editor of the independent news magazine The Nation, to two…
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U.S. Senate: Restore Free Expression, Pass Senator Leahy’s Revision of USA FREEDOM Act Before August Recess
Senator Leahy’s bill fixes key weaknesses in the House version of USA FREEDOM, opening up surveillance practices to heightened public…
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PEN Stands Against Spying
PEN is proud to be part of the Stand Against Spying coalition, a new initiative that presents every single member…
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This Week in Free Expression: July 25, 2014
It wouldn’t be a weekly round-up without more shenanigans—this week from Russia, Thailand, Turkey, and of course, the NSA.
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Mass Surveillance is Censorship
Edward Albee, Don DeLillo, John Green, Rachel Kushner, and twenty-five other leading American writers joined PEN American Center today in…