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writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
President Enrique Peña Nieto’s six years in office have been the most violent on record for Mexico’s journalists.
Released on the final day of PEN’s 84th annual congress, PEN’s report warns of “a rising tide of violence, impunity, extended pre-trial detentions, and surveillance” under the Modi government, of “punitive defamation laws [that] mute criticism”, nervous publishers who “have asked journalists to be less critical of authorities” and universities where a “climate of fear” has curbed student activism, rescinded invitations to controversial professors, andpurged textbooks that are deemed offensive.
The Turkish authorities should drop all charges against publisher and human rights activist Ragıp Zarakolu, PEN International said today.
Liu Xiaobo who is suddenly ‘free’ isn’t free at all; but let us celebrate this great man’s greater, more lasting freedom, so terribly earned: to be back in the arms of his beloved.
PEN Canada Advocates write to an imprisoned honorary member each month for one year.
Ariel Torres Funes wins the 2016 Escribir sin Miedo award for investigative journalism.
PEN Canada welcomes the release of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, on probation.
Colombian authorities must do everything in their power to locate the missing Spanish-Colombian journalist and author Salud Hernández-Mora and two TV reporters investigating her disappearance and bring them back to safety, PEN said today.
PEN International, PEN Canada and PEN Delhi call on Indian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the murder of Sandeep Kothari and bring all perpetrators to justice.
On June 7, 2015, the Saudi Supreme Court confirmed the sentence of 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes imposed on editor Raif Badawi after his conviction for “insulting Islam” and “founding a liberal website.”
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