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The author attended the 2023 Literary Gala in New York to accept the PEN Centenary Courage Award, and spoke out against the war on books in Florida.

Chinese writer and activist Xu Zhiyong was sentenced to 14 years in prison for writing and advocating for a “A Beautiful China.” 

PEN America and PEN Sydney today joined more than 170 writers and scholars worldwide–including Azar Nafisi, Shahriar Madanipour, Hisham Matar, Orhan Pamuk, Moniroo Ravanipour, Peter Sloterdjik, Bela Tarr, and Jia Zhangke–calling for the release of Ali Asadollahi, a noted poet and member of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA), as well as other unjustly detained writers in Iran.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to disrupt the Ukrainian publishing industry through such things as the destruction of warehouses, the disruption of logistics, and the displacement of employees. Still, the sector of nearly 250 houses continues to operate.

The Irrawaddy revisits a 2014 review of an art project by Ko Htein Lin honoring political prisoners’ sacrifices. The artist was arrested by the Myanmar junta this week.

As Salman Rushdie is attacked, threats to speech endure worldwide.

Journalists Beaten in Tajikistan, Azerbaijani Journalist Threatened, Imprisoned Journalists in Belarus, Yesypenko's PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, and more.

From an imprisoned Ukranian journalist to a high school activist in Florida, PEN America paid tribute Monday night to democracy and free expression and warned about the dangers faced in

Tajik journalist Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva and her husband, Kholbash Kholbashov, have been shown on state-run television "confessing" to organizing deadly unrests in the Gorno-Badakhshan region, despite saying days earlier that she had nothing to do with the protests.

A trial date has been set for RFE/RL freelance correspondent Andrey Kuznechyk, whose relatives and colleagues have not been informed about charges he faces since his arrest last year in Belarus.