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PEN Ups Pressure in Mexico as Another Journalist Is Murdered
The murder this week of Jaime Guadalupe González Dominguez, who edited and reported for the community news web site Ojinaga…
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Take Immediate Action for Poet Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami
There is one last hope of having poet Mohammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami’s conviction reversed. Take action for him now.
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Let’s Crowdsource Our Own Hollywood Movie About Torture
With controversy still swirling around the film Zero Dark Thirty and its misleading suggestion that torture put the CIA on…
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Qatari Poet’s Sentence Reduced
A three-judge panel of Qatar’s court of appeal unanimously decided today to reduce poet Mohammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami’s life sentence…
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Speak Up for Free Expression in Qatar
Poet Mohammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, serving a life sentence for his poetry in Qatar, is awaiting a decision on his…
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PEN Case Studies in Digital Freedom – Surveillance
In this series of posts, we demonstrate how we use the PEN Declaration on Digital Freedom to defend writers, bloggers,…
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PEN at UNESCO Freedom of Expression Conference – Day 2
The second day of the UNESCO conference on Freedom of Connection, Freedom of Expression in Marrakech featured more heated debate…
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Remember Tal
Two years ago today, Tal al-Mallouhi, a student, poet, and blogger who was detained in Damascus in late December 2009,…
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PEN’s Declaration on Digital Freedom goes to Marrakech
After a 24-hour journey, I’ve arrived in Marrakech, Morocco to participate in UNESCO’s Freedom of Connection, Freedom of Expression conference…