Category: In Our Focus

The Turkish authorities should not charge Nobel laureate and PEN International Vice President Orhan Pamuk with ‘insulting Atatürk’ and the Turkish flag, PEN International said today, as an investigation …

PEN-Moscow and the Svobodnoye Slovo (Free Speech) association express their solidarity with the International Memorial Society (an NGO considered a foreign agent by the Russian authorities) in connection with …

Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, meeting virtually at its 87th World Congress, 20 to 25 September 2021 Mass and largely peaceful protests have swept Belarus since the disputed …

Her fierce dedication to truth-telling inspires a new generation.

The Russian authorities must urgently end the cycle of impunity for crimes against journalists, PEN International, PEN Moscow and St Petersburg PEN said today, after the European Court of …

During the failed 1991 coup against Gorbachev, the democratic press rose up with a unity and determination that is hard to imagine today.

American and Russian women who remember the danger of the Cold War understand the stakes of this year’s summit.

On World Press Freedom Day (3 May), PEN International will pay a tribute to journalists who have lost their lives and remember those who are targeted in the pursuit …

The European Court of Human Rights released a judgement on 17 July, stating that the investigation of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya‘s murder “failed to look properly into who commissioned …

An open appeal by the “Syndicate 100” association of journalists concerning the inadmissibility of censorship in the era of a pandemic