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CORE FREEDOMS PRESSROOM
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Following is a list of press releases and information on the Core Freedoms Campaign's work since its launch in 2004.
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July 24, 2006:
Akbar Ganji on Writing and Freedom of Expression in Iran
PEN welcomed Akbar Ganji, one of Iran's most prominent champions of human rights and freedom of expression, to New York City today to discuss writing, free expression, and recent developments in Iran. >> 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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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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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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December 15, 2004:
Treasury Department Changes Regulations
OFAC issued new regulations today which explicitly permit Americans to engage in "all transactions necessary and ordinarily incident to the publishing and marketing of manuscripts, books, journals, and newspapers in paper or electronic format." >> More
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October 26, 2004:
Nobel Peace Prize winner joins battle for free speech
Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, has filed suit against the U.S. Treasury Department. >> More
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September 29, 2004:
PEN presents signatures to Congress in support of amending Patriot Act
Organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers and authors went to Capitol Hill today to seek an amendment to Section 215 of the Patriot Act to restore due process and confidentiality to bookstore and library records. >> More
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September 27, 2004:
PEN, publishers file suit to overturn information restrictions
PEN joined publishing groups in filing suit in a challenge to regulations governing the publication of informational materials from countries subject to U.S. trade embargo. >> More
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May 3, 2004:
PEN calls on President to abandon Patriot Act politics
PEN is calling on President Bush to lead an open, bipartisan evaluation of individual provisions of the Act that are scheduled to sunset in 2005. >> More
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March 4, 2004:
PEN protests Treasury Department regulations that interfere with publishing
PEN requests an immediate review of OFAC regulations that could be interpreted to bar or restrict in any way the publication of literature-and indeed any information and informational materials-originating in countries subject to U.S. trade embargo. >> More
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April 5, 2004:
First Amendment problems remain in wake of latest OFAC pronouncement
A letter sent by the director of OFAC to the IEEE leaves many questions unanswered with respect to Treasury Department regulations governing the publication of informational materials from countries subject to U.S. trade embargo. >> More
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Feb. 28, 2004: New York Times Article about the Treasury Department Regulations
Writers often grumble about the criminal things editors do to their prose. The federal government has recently weighed in on the same issue — literally.
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February 17, 2004:
Book, library groups launch Patriot Act petition campaign
PEN joined booksellers and librarians and writers to launch a nationwide effort to obtain one million signatures in support of legislation to amend Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. >> More
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September 19, 2003:
PEN protests Ashcroft comments on librarians, urges repeal of Patriot Act
PEN protests in the strongest possible terms the recent speech deriding the concerns that librarians, booksellers, and other organizations have expressed over Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. >> More
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May 15, 2003:
Congress must safeguard Americans' freedom to read, book community says
PEN joined colleagues from the publishing, bookselling and library communities in calling upon Congress to safeguard the right of every American to read freely, without the government's knowledge or intervention. >> More
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August 19, 2002:
Book groups protest secrecy on bookstore, library subpoenas
Groups representing authors, book publishers, and booksellers have criticized the Justice Department for refusing to reveal how many times it has used its power under the Patriot Act to force bookstores, libraries and newspapers to reveal confidential records. >> More
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March 7, 2002:
PEN fights Bush executive order on presidential papers
PEN has joined the legal battle to reverse President Bush's executive order limiting access to presidential papers and to authorize the National Archives to administer the Presidential Records Act of 1978 as Congress intended. >> More
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