Articles by PEN America
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 […]
Imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo to receive top PEN honour
PEN American Center named Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s pre-eminent dissident writers and activists and a leading figure in the PEN movement internationally, as the recipient of its 2009 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
Campaign for Reader Privacy launches next phase in campaign to restore safeguards stripped away by Patriot Act
(PEN/IFEX) – The following is a 7 April 2009 PEN American Center press release: BOOK GROUPS LAUNCH NEW EFFORT TO AMEND PATRIOT ACT Washington, DC, April 7, 2009 – Organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, and writers today launched the latest phase in their five-year campaign to restore the reader privacy safeguards that were stripped away […]
Writer Jiang Qisheng detained and interrogated by police
(PEN/IFEX) – The following is a 31 March 2009 PEN American Center press release: Beijing writer, PEN VP Jiang Qisheng detained for Charter 08 Pressure Increases on PEN Members in China New York, March 31, 2009 – Independent Chinese PEN Center Vice President Dr. Jiang Qisheng was detained and interrogated by police in Beijing today […]
PEN presses for end to ideological exclusion as Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan appeals against ban
(PEN/IFEX) – The following is an 18 March 2009 PEN American Center press release: PEN Presses for End to Ideological Exclusion New York, March 18, 2009 – One week before an Appeals Court hears its challenge to the exclusion of Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan from the U.S., PEN joined 59 other organizations in sending a […]
Movements of leading intellectuals restricted during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit
(PEN/IFEX) – The following is a 21 February 2009 PEN American Center press release: Writers Decry Detentions During Clinton Visit to China New York, February 21, 2009 – Writers reacted angrily to reports that members of the Independent Chinese PEN Center and other leading Chinese intellectuals have been confined to their homes or had their […]