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    Campaigns to ban books from public schools are spreading quickly across the U.S. Join PEN America & special guest @jzfriedman on 10/27 at 6:30PM ET as we discuss what students can do to beat book bans for our latest Free Speech Live! event. Register here: http://bit.ly/3aUN1dM.

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    PEN America condemns the Iranian authorities' decision to summon writer and translator Arash Ganji to serve a prison sentence that is part of "a broader pattern of legal harassment against writers in Iran." https://bit.ly/3plXs2o

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    Join CPJ, @PENamerica, and @hrw on Friday, October 22 at 9:30 a.m. EDT for a virtual UN event on the assault on freedom of expression and human rights in #Belarus. The speakers include Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexeivich.

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