Articles by PEN America
Natalya Estemirova case must be solved, say CPJ, PEN American Center
CPJ and Pen American Center call on the Russian president to ensure that both Estemirova’s assassins and those who sent them to her doorstep are brought to justice.
Book groups praise reader privacy protections in House Patriot Act bill
The Campaign for Reader Privacy welcomed a new House bill that will restore reader privacy protections eliminated eight years ago by the USA Patriot Act.
Book groups seek meaningful reader privacy protection in Patriot Act reauthorisation
The Senate Judiciary Committee recently provided additional protections for library records but this does not apply to the records of bookstore customers.
PEN applauds passage of US congressional resolution for writer Liu Xiaobo
PEN American Center urged the Obama administration to press for the dissident’s release in advance of the president’s visit to Beijing.
PEN protests exclusion from U.S. of German publisher and PEN member
Karl-Dietrich Wolff was reportedly questioned for six hours by U.S. officials, photographed and fingerprinted.
PEN presses Yale University to restore images in book on cartoon controversy
PEN American Center is urging Yale University to review a decision to remove images of the Prophet Muhammed from the book “The Cartoons That Shook the World”.
Appeals court reverses decision on exclusion of foreign scholar Tariq Ramadan
PEN American Center has hailed a court ruling in its case challenging the exclusion of the Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan from the United States.
On World Press Freedom Day, PEN launches Americas campaign, condemns rising violence against journalists in Latin America
(PEN/IFEX) – New York City, May 3, 2009 – PEN American Center is marking World Press Freedom Day today by launching the “Freedom to Write in the Americas” campaign, which will run through the rest of 2009, and by releasing the “Declaration in Defense of the Freedom to Write in the Americas.” The Declaration is […]