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PRESS RELEASES
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November 10, 2005:
PEN Goes to Court for Documents on Visa Denials
PEN filed a lawsuit today to compel the Departments of State, Justice, and Homeland Security and the CIA to release documents on whether the United States bars prominent international figures from visiting the United States because of their political views. >> More
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January 25, 2006:
PEN Goes to Court to Challenge Patriot Act Exclusions of Foreign Scholars
PEN has joined in filing a lawsuit challenging a Patriot Act provision that can be used to bar prominent writers and scholars who are critical of U.S. policies from visiting the United States. >> More
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June 23, 2006:
PEN praises ruling in lawsuit challenging visa denials
PEN hailed a ruling challenging the U.S. government’s refusal to issue a visa to a prominent Muslim scholar, calling the court’s order to process Professor Tariq Ramadan’s visa application “a clear and articulate affirmation of the First Amendment rights of Americans. >> More
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September 26, 2006:
United States closes door again on Tariq Ramadan
The U.S. government has again blocked Tariq Ramadan from visiting the United States, this time after being ordered by a Federal District Judge to act on a visa application the Swiss-born Oxford University professor submitted last September. >> More
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February 28, 2007:
PEN, Co-Plaintiffs File New Challenge to “Ideological Exclusion”
Responding to the United States government’s most recent explanation for denying a visa to Tariq Ramadan, PEN American Center has joined with the American Academy of Religion, the American Association of University Professors, and the ACLE in filing a new motion in federal court to strike down a Patriot Act provision that allows the government to refuse entry to foreign scholars because of their political views. >> More
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March 31, 2008:
PEN Calls on U.S. to Review Exclusion, Admit Banned British Author
We are writing on behalf of the 3,300 professional writers who are members of PEN American Center to express our shock and disappointment over reports that British author Sebastian Horsley was recently denied entry into the United States – and to encourage you to review this decision immediately so that he can join us in New York for PEN’s World Voices Festival of International Literature at the end of April.
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January 26, 2006 | New York Times | Lawsuit Filed in Support of Muslim Scholar Barred From U.S.
Citing the case of a prominent Muslim scholar who has been barred from the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit yesterday seeking to strike down a clause of the USA Patriot Act that bars foreigners who endorse terrorism from entering to this country. >> More
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February 21, 2006 | Christian Century | Religion scholars join suit vs. Patriot Act
The ACLU and three other groups, including the large American Academy of Religion, have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down a USA Patriot Act clause they say is applied wrongly to stifle academic debate. >> More
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April 14, 2006 | New York Times | Hearing For Muslim Barred by U.S.
Government lawyers clarified some mysteries yesterday and deepened others in the case of Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss Muslim scholar and leading European theologian of Islam who has been barred by the Bush administration from traveling to the United States since July 2004. >> More
June 24, 2006 | New York Times | Judge Orders U.S. to Decide If Muslim Scholar Can Enter
A federal judge in New York yesterday ordered the Bush administration to decide by September whether to grant an entry visa to a prominent Muslim scholar.
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September 26, 2007 | New York Times | Free Speech Groups Sue Over Visa Denial
The government is increasingly using secret evidence allowed under new antiterrorism laws to prevent certain critics from entering the United States, according to a group of civil rights and academic organizations. >> More
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October 22, 2007 | New York Times | Say What You Like, Just Don't Say It Here
The American commitment to free speech is the most robust in the world. But these days that tolerance stops at the border. >> More
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April 2, 2008 | New York Times | PEN Rallies Behind Ousted Author
When it comes to publicity, being denied entry into the United States may be the best thing that ever happened to Sebastian Horsley, right, unless you count being hung on a cross in the Philippines. >> More
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EVENTS & MULTIMEDIA
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