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PEN Raises the Alarm: Reports of Secret Trial and Conviction in Tohti Case
If corroborated, this action will mar an already declining human rights record in China, where free expression is ostensibly protected…
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Mexico: Third Journalist Murdered This Year
PEN International joins PEN Mexico in protesting the murder of journalist Jorge Torres Palacios, found dead on June 2, 2014….
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Leading Ukrainian and Russian writers come together to promote peaceful solution to Ukraine crisis
Prominent Russian author Lyudmila Ulitskaya, leading Ukrainian writer and scholar Aleksandra Hnatiuk, and Swedish PEN President and novelist Ola Larsmo…
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In Remembrance of Anthony Fleischer, Tireless Champion of South African Literature
The President of South African PEN died last week. PEN American Center President Peter Godwin and South African writer Margie…
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Snowden One Year On: Four Things We Know
On the first anniversary, PEN looks at what we’ve learned over the course of one year of ongoing revelations, the…
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Honduras: PEN Urges Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Protect Journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado
At least 40 journalists have been killed in the country since 2003—35 since the coup d’état in June 2009—while others…
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Tiananmen at 25: Enforced Amnesia
Memory should never be a crime. We join our colleagues in China and around the world in commemorating the blossoming…
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China: Tiananmen Square 25 Years on
“Not only is the tragedy itself a suppressed piece of history in China, but many of those who protested twenty-five…