Category Archives: Press Freedom

She Is Not Alone – A Joint Statement

Posted on 10/31/2022 by | She Is Not Alone – A Joint Statement已关闭评论

She Is Not Alone
– A Joint Statement

The undersigned PEN centers and individuals are expressing our solidarity with Ms. Geling Yan, a prominent American-Chinese author residing in Berlin, for her struggle to restore her credit against Chinese state power. As shown in her open letter attached, Chinese authorities have suppressed her freedoms of expression and of the press in China, and been extending their long-arm censorship beyond through China’s expanding economic and political powers. We are calling the writers, journalists, publishers, distributors and media of conscience to support Ms. Yan’s One-Person-against-A-State struggle Continue reading →

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Chinese activist Liu Feiyue given five years’ jail for ‘inciting subversion’

Posted on 01/29/2019 by | Chinese activist Liu Feiyue given five years’ jail for ‘inciting subversion’已关闭评论

Xi Jinping takes a public oath of allegiance to the Constitution in the Great Hall of the People 13th National People’s Congress, Beijing, China Liu Feiyue is one of many Chinese human rights activists who have been swept up in Xi Jinping’s crackdown on dissent. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

Flawed trial shows how Beijing abuses the judicial system to silence dissent, says Amnesty International

The founder of a prominent Chinese civil and human rights website has been sentenced to five years in prison for inciting state subversion, according to human rights organisations. Continue reading →

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PEN International: Resolution on the People’s Republic of China (2018)

Posted on 10/21/2018 by | PEN International: Resolution on the People’s Republic of China (2018)已关闭评论

 (Approved by the Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, meeting at its 84th World Congress, in Pune, India from 25-29 September 2018)

PEN International has for many years expressed concern about serious and sweeping restrictions on freedom of expression in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including through resolutions adopted at its annual Congresses, most recently at its 83rd World Congress in September 2017. Continue reading →

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CHINA: ORDER TO RESTRICT CHILDREN’S BOOKS A TROUBLING STEP TOWARD IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY

Posted on 03/15/2017 by | CHINA: ORDER TO RESTRICT CHILDREN’S BOOKS A TROUBLING STEP TOWARD IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY已关闭评论

NEW YORK – The Chinese government’s reported introduction of new measures to restrict children’s access to books written by foreign authors is the next step in China’s growing restrictions on free thought and free expression, cc stated today. Continue reading →

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Mexican Journalists Stand in Solidarity with US journalists

Posted on 03/06/2017 by | Mexican Journalists Stand in Solidarity with US journalists已关闭评论

PENMarch 6, 2017

To our colleagues in the United States of America,

At this time of an unprecedented, relentless assault on the free press of the United States by the Trump administration, we Mexican journalists, writers, and publishers stand in solidarity with you as you do your crucial work. Continue reading →

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Attack on BBC Crew Reflects Threat to Foreign Journalists in China

Posted on 03/03/2017 by | Attack on BBC Crew Reflects Threat to Foreign Journalists in China已关闭评论

NEW YORK—The assault and coerced confession of a BBC camera crew in rural China, just days before China’s National People’s Congress, is a violation of clearly established rules allowing journalists to travel and report freely in the country and an effort to suppress coverage of sensitive subjects, PEN America said in a statement today. Continue reading →

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Hong Kong daily Sing Pao says its journalists and website are under attack

Posted on 02/28/2017 by | Hong Kong daily Sing Pao says its journalists and website are under attack已关闭评论

New York, February 22, 2017–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Hong Kong authorities to investigate the harassment of journalists at the daily Sing Pao. Sing Pao Media Enterprises, which owns the paper, released a statement yesterday saying that staff have been followed and harassed, and that the newspaper’s computer system was attacked. Continue reading →

Hong Kong daily Sing Pao says its journalists and website are under attack已关闭评论

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Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno: Trump’s Crusade Against Critics

Posted on 02/27/2017 by | Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno: Trump’s Crusade Against Critics已关闭评论

It’s now clear that one of Donald Trump’s top priorities as president is to discredit, harass, and intimidate his critics, or anyone who exposes how his administration is working. Continue reading →

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