Salman Rushdie and the enduring risk of political art
As Salman Rushdie is attacked, threats to speech endure worldwide.
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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.