
It’s with great pleasure that we're able to announce a policy change for PEN’s Freedom to Write program, one that we think will enhance the efficiency and reach of our important international and domestic campaigns.
Dissident Poets: I AM NEDA
On Tuesday, February 16, PEN USA presented a special evening of poetry at the Hammer Museum in Westwood with work inspired by the events in Iran last summer. In association with Iranian-American poet Sholeh Wolpé, author of "I Am Neda," we collected dozens of poems by prominent poets in support of those who speak out for freedom around the world.
electricPEN is proud to present a series of monthly columns from Anna Feuer, our faithful intern and diligent Freedom to Write correspondent, who spent her junior year abroad in India....
May 2010
Our Society will be a Free Society: Please sign the online petition before MARCH 19
In response to the brutal crackdown against journalists, writers, and bloggers in Iran, a coalition of leading press freedom and free expression groups, including International PEN, have launched a petition drive calling for the release of those imprisoned. More such professionals are now in prison in Iran than in any other country in the world—at least 60, 47 of them journalists.
RAPID ACTION NETWORK
28 January 2010
RAN 53/09 – Update #2
AZERBAIJAN: Two journalists released
Rapid Action Network
2 February 2010
RAN 6/10 – Update #1
CHINA: Writer and Independent Chinese PEN Officer Zhao Shiying released