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COMING UP
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 OCTOBER 13:
Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror”
With Matthew Alexander, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Amrit Singh, Art Spiegelman, and special guests
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PEN NEWS
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Amazon.com Awards Grant to
PEN American Center
Over the last five years, new media has played a crucial role in the success of PEN American Center’s freedom of expression advocacy. [More]
 Steven L. Isenberg
PEN American Center announces the appointment of Steven L. Isenberg as Executive Director. [More]
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FEATURED MULTIMEDIA
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 AUDIO
Conversation: Vadim Yarmolinets and Larry Siems
Conversation: Libba Bray and Nick Burd
Conversation: Nahid Mozaffari and Sara Khalili
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 VIDEO
Iran: A Conversation About the Elections, Protest, and the Future
With Shaul Bakhash, Roger Cohen, Haleh Esfandiari, and Karim Sadjadpour
Readings From Around the Globe
With Bernardo Atxaga, Petina Gappah, Mariken Jongman, Michael Ondaatje, Daniel Sada, Hwang Sok-yong, Bernard Comment, and Colm Tóibín
>> More video
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PEN MEMBER BLOGS
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ADVOCACY NEWS
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 September 25, 2009:
Reader Privacy Advocates Welcome Patriot Act Reform Measures |
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| The Campaign for Reader Privacy, a coalition of organizations representing librarians, booksellers, authors, and publishers, welcomed the introduction of legislation that will safeguard the First Amendment reader privacy rights of ordinary Americans by reforming provisions of the USA Patriot Act, some of which are due to expire at the end of 2009.
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 September 11, 2009:
PEN Presses Yale to Restore Images to Book on Cartoon Controversy |
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| PEN American Center has sent a letter to the President of Yale University and the Board of the Yale Corporation urging the University to review a decision to remove all images of the Prophet Muhammed from Jytte Klausen’s book The Cartoons That Shook the World, which is forthcoming from Yale University Press. [More] |
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 September 10, 2009:
Writers Freed in Afghanistan, China |
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| PEN welcomes the release of journalist Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, who had originally been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, and Ilham Tohti, a member of the Uighur PEN Center who was detained in Beijing during the unrest in Xinjiang Province. [More] |
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 August 18, 2009:
PEN American Center Protests Conviction of Guatemalan Publisher |
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| PEN American Center today issued a letter to Guatemalan authorities protesting the conviction against Raúl Figueroa Sarti, owner of the publishing house F & G Editores, on “spurious charges” of copyright infringement. [More] |
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 July 17, 2009:
Appeals Court Reverses Decision on Exclusion of Foreign Scholar Tariq Ramadan |
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| PEN American Center today hailed a federal appeals court ruling in its case challenging the exclusion of the Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan from the United States, and expressed the hope that the Obama administration would now act quickly to issue him a visa and permit him to visit the United States. [More] |
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 July 16, 2009:
100 International Writers Call for Release of Journalist Maziar Bahari in Iran |
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| PEN American Center and PEN Canada today sent an open letter signed by over 100 of the world’s most prominent writers calling for the release of Canadian-Iranian journalist and playwright Maziar Bahari, who has been held incommunicado in Tehran since June 21, 2009.
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 July 15, 2009:
PEN American Center Condemns Murder of Natalia Estemirova |
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| PEN American Center today expressed outrage over the murder of journalist and human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, who was found dead today in the Russian republic of Ingushetia. [More] |
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 June 24, 2009:
Writers Condemn Formal Arrest of Chinese Colleague Liu Xiaobo |
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| After spending more than six months in detention without charge or trial, prominent writer and literary critic Liu Xiaobo was formally arrested in Beijing on June 23 and charged with “inciting subversion of state power.” [More] |
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 June 16, 2009:
More than Six Months on, Liu Xiaobo Remains in Detention |
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| PEN American Center protested the continued detention of prominent writer Liu Xiaobo today with a letter to Chinese authorities, citing the clear violation of international and Chinese law. [More] |
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 May 3, 2009:
On World Press Freedom Day, PEN Launches Americas Campaign |
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| 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.” [More] |
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CAMPAIGN FOR CORE FREEDOMS
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>> Campaign for Core Freedoms
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PETITION TO FREE LIU XIAOBO
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IMPRISONED WRITER CASELIST
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