PEN America launches its Freedom to Write Index 2020
PEN America launches its Freedom to Write Index 2020 13 minute read Police officers block protesters during a demonstration against Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international accord designed to protect women, in Istanbul, 20 March 2021, BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images During 2020, according to data collected for PEN America’s Freedom to Write Index, at least 273 writers, academics, and public intellectuals in 35 countries - in all geographic regions around the world - were in prison or unjustly held in detention in conn...
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