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According to Pen America, a freedom of expression advocacy organization, in 2020, at least 273 writers, academics, and public intellectuals in 35 countries were in prison or unjustly held in detention in connection with their writing, their work, or related activism. It’s a considerable uptick from the organization’s estimate of at least 238 writers and public intellectuals in 2019. And the pandemic is in part to blame.

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...

PEN America Releases New International Freedom To Write Index The second edition of PEN’s Freedom to Write Index sees an alarming jump in writer detentions from 238 detainees in 2019 to at least 273 in 2020, in 35 countries. Image: PEN America Top Three Offenders: China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey Writers, it’s asserted in the opening essay of PEN America’s new Freedom To Write 2020 assessment, released today (April 20), “have played an essential role during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing and critiquing government responses, documenting personal experiences, and shocking us in...

Detention and Abuse of Egyptian Student is Part of Ongoing Assault on Free Expression, Academic Freedom Detention and Abuse of Egyptian Student is Part of Ongoing Assault on Free Expression, Academic Freedom Ahmed Samir Santawy is currently being held in solitary confinement facing trumped-up charges FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 3, 2021 (New York, NY) — PEN America today joined with free expression allies globally demanding the release of Egyptian student Ahmed Samir Santawy, who is currently being held in solitary confinement in Egypt facing wholly unfounded charges. PEN America says his on...

Myanmar's Creatives Are Fighting Military Rule With Art – Despite the Threat of a Draconian New Cyber-Security Law Time 2/12/2021 Suyin Haynes © The New York Times/Redux An artist projects symbols of protest on a building, to show support for the National League for Democracy in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, on Feb. 5, four days after the military seized full control of the country. The raised three fingers is a defiant salute from the "Hunger Games" films. Khine, an artist based in Yangon, doesn’t think of himself as political. Right now, he says, he’d much rathe...