PEN International

Ahead of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 26th Session, ten free speech and human rights organisations called for the release of Bahraini journalists Hussain Hubail and Qassim Zain Aldeen.

Community radio journalist Hernán Cruz Barnica was killed in the department of Copán on 28 May and disc jockey Óscar Anthony Torres Martínez was murdered in Olancho department on 1 June 2014. These are the first journalists to be killed in the country since the inauguration of President Juan Orlando Hernández in January 2014.

People in China find novel ways to bypass the censors during the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Violence at Gezi Park anniversary protests in Turkey points to the fact that freedom of expression is still under threat one year after anti-government protest swept through the country.

Joint letter from civil society organisations to foreign ministers of Freedom Online Coalition member states regarding Snowden’s allegations of the surveillance of human rights organisations.

Making a statement during International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO-T).

PEN International and English PEN are extremely concerned by allegations by Edward Snowden that human rights organisations have been specifically targeted by the British and U.S. spy agencies’ mass surveillance programmes.

Former president and co-founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja was sentenced to life in prison in June 2011. He continues to be denied adequate medical attention and suffers from severe medical complications as a result of his mistreatment in detention.