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PEN ADVOCACY
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PEN works to protect the freedom of the written word wherever it is imperiled. It defends writers and journalists from all over the world who are imprisoned, threatened, persecuted, or attacked in the course of carrying out their profession. In the U.S. it protests book-bannings in schools and counters legal challenges to the First Amendment. |
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BREAKING NEWS
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 May 12, 2008:
Crackdown Intensifies in China During Olympic Torch Relay
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 May 6, 2008:
Chinese Authorities Detain Writer Zhou Yuanzhi
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 April 30, 2008:
PEN Writer and Chinese Citizen Yu Zhang Denied Entry to Hong Kong
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 April 24, 2008:
PEN to Present Petition to Chinese Mission Demanding Release of Jailed Colleagues
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 April 18, 2008:
PEN Denounces Detention of Jamyang Kyi
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 April 11, 2008:
Yang Tongyan to Receive 2008 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
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 April 11, 2008:
V.A. Nurse to Receive 2008 PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award
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MORE NEWS:
April 10, 2008: Zhu Yufu Receives Tougher Sentence After Re-Trial
April 3, 2008: Hu Jia Sentenced to 3 1/2 Years for for “Inciting Subversion”
March 31, 2008: British Author Sebastian Horsley Refused Entry to U.S.
March 18, 2008: Trial Reinforces Fears Hu Jia Is Being Silenced for His Writings
March 18, 2008: On Fifth Anniversary of Cuba's Black Spring, 28 Writers Still Imprisoned
March 17, 2008: PEN to China: Let Free Press Tell True Story in Tibet
March 11, 2008: Charges Against Turkmen Writer Dropped
March 8, 2008: International Women's Day: Women Writing Under Surveillance in China
February 8, 2008: Yu Huafeng Released from Prison in China
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Journalist and poet arrested for posting meeting notes about China's Propaganda Department's treatment of the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen Square; currently serving 10-year sentence on charges of "leaking state secrets abroad." 
Journalist imprisoned under crackdown on dissidents in 2003 and since held under dire conditions in various prisons and hospitals. 
Journalist who has covered human rights abuses and written articles critical of government; held in psychiatric detention for over a year.
Executive Director of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and Editor-in-Chief of Pravo-zashchita (Rights Defense); convicted for "inciting interethnic hatred by using the mass media." 
