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PEN America today condemned the sentencing of Salma Al-Shehab, a Saudi student at Leeds University in the U.K., who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for her Twitter activity.

The shattering news that four democracy activists were secretly executed at the end of July by Myanmar’s military junta demands a strong response, amid well-founded fears that the military is preparing to escalate its campaign of terror against civilians. The executions on Saturday, July 23 of the writer Ko Jimmy and the hip hop artist and former member of Parliament U Phyo Zaya Thaw were carried out after the two men were tried by a military tribunal on baseless charges of terrorism. The junt...

PEN America, the writers' organisation that fights for freedom of expression for writers and against their persecution made a statement about the Myanmar junta's execution of four pro-democracy activists.

The trial comes amid allegations that Xu and rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi were tortured while in detention.

The literary writer’s organization PEN America has hired a human rights advocate, Liesl Gerntholtz, to expand its support of writers around the world who face imprisonment for their work

The US$10 million gift of the Barbey family has established PEN's new Freedom to Write Center, which Liesl Gerntholtz will helm.

PEN America está agora contratando para a vaga de Director, PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center em New York. Inscreva-se agora.

PEN America is now hiring for the position of Director, PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center in New York. Apply today.