Articles by PEN International
Snowden, Pussy Riot, and anti-gay ‘propaganda’: Discussing free expression in Russia
Cathal Sheerin, a researcher and campaigner at PEN International, recently interviewed three journalists and a filmmaker about Edward Snowden, Pussy Riot, and a number of laws that have placed a choke-hold on free expression in Russia.
Call for Kazakh poet to be moved from solitary confinement
Join the campaign to help move Kazakh poet Aron Atabek from solitary confinement, where he has been for two years for writing a book that criticises President Nazarbayev.
Prolific Turkish writer given 34-year jail term in “Ergenekon” trial
PEN International is concerned that government critics such as Mustafa Balbay – a prolific journalist and author – may have been penalised as a warning to government opponents.
Kazakh poet must be released from solitary confinement, PEN says
Poet Aron Atabek has been placed in solitary confinement for two years as punishment for writing a book that criticises President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Over 150 groups urge President Obama to protect whistleblowers and journalists
Over 150 IFEX members and partners of ARTICLE 19 appealed to US President Obama to drop charges against whistleblower Edward Snowden, update the Whistleblower Protection Act and pass a media shield law.
Groups call for review of Ecuador’s restrictive communications law
Over 30 IFEX members write to President Rafael Correa, calling on him to submit the recently-approved Ecuadorian Communications Law to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for a Consultative Opinion.
Global coalition stands against unchecked surveillance
People are encouraged to join around 200 organisations supporting the adoption of 13 basic principles applying existing human rights law to modern digital surveillance.
Appeal for immediate release of Vietnamese blogger Dieu Cay on hunger strike
Ten rights organisations have called on President Obama to raise the issue of ailing blogger Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay), on hunger strike to protest jail conditions, when he meets the Vietnamese President on 25 July 2013.