Five Burmese journalists have been sentenced to 10 years in prison over a report about an alleged secret chemical weapons factory carried by the publication in January.
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The PEN Ten is PEN America’s biweekly interview series curated by Lauren Cerand. This week Lauren talks with Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, a photographer and writer from Havana, Cuba.
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Iranian poet and novelist Payam Feili was forced into exile in Turkey last month amidst mounting threats against himself and his family, the poet told PEN International and PEN American Center this week. Feili described how […]
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Zone 9 bloggers were charged with terrorism on July 17. PEN American Center’s Deji Olukotun sheds light on the effects of these strictures, which are constraining free expression throughout Ethiopia.
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“We found that net neutrality dramatically impacts the ability of authors of all kinds to conduct research and to reach readers.” PEN American Center’s Deji Olukotun highlights the great loss of free expression if net neutrality were to go the way of the dodo.
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Jean-Euphèle Milcé, the founder of PEN Haiti, reveals the current governmental roadblocks impinging on free expression and his future visions for Haiti in this interview originally published by PEN on June 27, 2014.
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“Half of every story in Thailand is Royal… How can we write anything, even a historic novel, when we’re only allowed to touch the subject by praising them in a way that seems too unbelievable to be true?” Thai writer Marisa Akara calls attention to the stifling effects of the vice-like lèse-majesté law.
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