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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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 July 2, 2008:
Chinese Journalist Sentenced, Others Prevented From Meeting U.S. Officials
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 June 19, 2008:
50 Days Before Olympics, PEN Urges U.S. Action for Writers Jailed in China
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 June 19, 2008:
PEN, Publishers Decry Conviction of Ragip Zarakolu in Turkey
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 June 13, 2008:
Detentions Escalate at China Quake Site
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 June 6, 2008:
No Let-Up: China Detains Another Writer
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 May 30, 2008:
Normando Hernández González Removed from Hospital, Returned to Prison
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 May 28, 2008:
PEN Protests Cyber-Attacks Against Woeser
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MORE NEWS:
May 22, 2008: Chinese Writer and Professor Guo Quan Detained
May 12, 2008: Crackdown Intensifies in China During Olympic Torch Relay
May 6, 2008: Chinese Authorities Detain Writer Zhou Yuanzhi
April 30, 2008: PEN Writer and Chinese Citizen Yu Zhang Denied Entry to Hong Kong
April 24, 2008: PEN to Present Petition to Chinese Mission Demanding Release of Jailed Colleagues
April 18, 2008: PEN Denounces Detention of Jamyang Kyi
April 11, 2008: Yang Tongyan to Receive 2008 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
April 11, 2008: V.A. Nurse to Receive 2008 PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award
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
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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." 
