PEN International

Independent organizations in Egypt face a looming crackdown. The government has threatened to enforce a draconian associations law that became law 12 years ago, but has seldom been enforced.

IFEX members and partners from around the world urge the UN to include access to information in the Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

PEN International condemns a social media campaign to boycott the work of Turkish-Jewish writer and PEN Turkey board member Mario Levi.

Reaction outside Russia to these laws has been to laugh at their silliness, but Russians whose work is in writing or the visual arts point to something much more sinister going on behind this legislation.

Ales Bialiatski is the founder of a non-governmental organisation that campaigns for activists who are harassed and persecuted by the Belarusian authorities. He was arrested on spurious charges of tax evasion and sentenced to four-and-a-half years’ imprisonment.

More than 100 groups and individuals worldwide call on Egyptian President el-Sisi to remove the unjust sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists.

The World Cup is almost over! Go on Twitter now to remind the Brazilian government one more time that freedom of expression is not a game.

Six weeks after the murder of prominent ‘red-shirt’ poet Mainueng K. Kunthee, freedom of expression is severely suppressed and a climate of fear prevails. It is thought that the poet may have been targeted for his political activism amidst the escalating political violence in the country at the time.