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Dispatch from South African PEN on Dropping of President’s Defamation Suits
South African PEN Vice President Ray Louw writes from Johannesburg about the impact of President Zuma’s decision to drop his…
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Liu Xia’s Brother Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
On Sunday, June 9, hours after Xi Jinping and Barack Obama wrapped up their two-day Sunnylands summit, a Chinese court…
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Will the Armies of Censorship Wear Flip Flops?
At Facebook, a legion of flip flop-wearing staff are on the front lines of free expression battles. Is this a…
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Remember Tiananmen
As Milan Kundera famously wrote, “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
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No Regrets: Giving Voice to the Voiceless in Russia
Civil society organizations in Russia are in danger, but it is the individuals who support free expression and stand up…
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Four Digital Security Lessons for Writers
Four lessons on digital security from the PEN International Writers in Prison conference.
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I Shall Persevere! A Letter from Kality Prison
After an Ethiopian court upheld Eskinder Nega’s 18-year prison sentence, the journalist smuggled a letter out of prison.
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Leap the Firewall
With the release of PEN International’s China Report, PEN American Center is calling on its supporters and followers to help…
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Tweet #ShesNotFree in Support of Liu Xia
PEN launches the Twitter campaign #shesnotfree in support of Chinese artist and poet Liu Xia on the eve of our…