PEN America

IFEX members and other groups respond to Aung San Suu Kyi’s invitation to prove why the prosecution of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar was flawed and should be overturned.

The public inquiry must be completely independent of the Maltese police, government and politicians, and it should be conducted by a panel of respected international judges with no political or government links.

A U.S. District Court judge accepted the terms of Reality Winner’s plea agreement, under which she will serve 63 months in prison. This is the longest sentence ever received by a federal defendant accused of making an unauthorized disclosure to the media.

On 16 August hundreds of newspapers across the United States, led by The Boston Globe, published editorials challenging attacks on press freedom. Each publication in its own words stressed the essential role that journalism and news outlets play in undergirding American communities, politics and policymaking, and the nation as a whole.

Nearly 50 civil society groups are urging Turkey not to make the country’s first conviction of filmmakers under its terrorist propaganda laws.

Civil society and journalists in Burma find that media freedom and free expression continue to be under significant threat.

Six months after Caruana Galizia was murdered, those who ordered the killing remain unidentified; members of the establishment continue to sue her for libel; some ridicule her memory.

China’s tightening grasp on social media offers a potent tool of repression for President-for-Life Xi Jinping.