Judges overturn decision of high court that government proscription of group under Terrorism Act was wrong

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was arrested after reporting on friendly fire incident during US conflict with Iran

Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Eyewitnesses tell the BBC Iranian security forces

The human-rights campaigner won the Nobel Peace Prize while behind bars.

English PEN announces the six shortlisted titles for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025

Sabrina Mahfouz’s 2025 PEN Pinter Prize encomium.

Stella Gaitano was declared the winner of the PEN English Pinter Prize for Writer of Courage 2025 on in London, UK, on October 10, 2025.

17 September 2025 : Today at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Sebastien Lai addressed the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on behalf of PEN International, calling on the Hong Kon...

Em Dial on archives and invitations of silence.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s pardon is a major step forward and a huge relief, FairSquare said today after his lawyer reported that the President had issued a pardon for the British-Egyptian national. FairSqu...

Reports say writer, who has served six years for liking a Facebook post, has also been given a presidential pardon

“At this 91st Congress we affirmed that freedom of expression cannot be atomized —whether in defending peace against authoritarianism, protecting our planet, standing with trans and gender-diverse peo...

“At this Congress in Kraków we saw the importance of our shared mission. Writers from across the world came together to defend freedom of expression, to stand with those silenced by war, censorship, a...

21 August 2025: Today, PEN International and PEN Centres joined a coalition of 72 freedom of expression and human rights organisations in a letter to the UK’s Prime Minister, Sir Kier Starmer, urging ...

Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian r...

“We mourn and condemn the killing of five Palestinian journalists in Gaza, including prominent correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh. These were civilians, protected under international l...

Eno is executive producing “a night of music, reflection and hope” at Wembley Arena, with a lineup to be announced

Huda Ammori argued that home secretary’s decision to proscribe group under terrorism laws was ‘abuse of power’ The co-founder of Palestine Action can bring a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the direct action group under anti-terrorism laws, a high court judge has ruled. Lawyers for Huda Ammori argued at a hearing in London last week that the proscription of Palestine Action, placing it on a par with groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. Continue reading...

Volker Turk urges the UK government to lift the "unnecessary" ban on the group.

Awarding 14 titles from 10 publishers, 13 languages and 11 regions.

On International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski on letters, solidarity, and compassion. Translated by Valzhyna Mort.

PEN Pinter Prize 2025 Winner, Leila Aboulela, dressed in a black top with a patterned headscarf and smiling at the camera, leaning against a wooden fence with greenery behind her.

Al-Mayadeen slams ‘brutal’ assault on Nasser al-Lahham's home, demands his immediate release

Es autor del libro "Mayra, su vida terminó, su historia comenzó", en el que vinculó al exgobernador Félix González Canto con un crimen ocurrido en la isla.

Yeni Özgür Politika ve PolitikArt’a yazdığı için tutuklu olan gazeteci Mehmet Üçar, yurtdışına çıkış yasağı adli kontrol tedbiriyle ilk duruşmada tahliye edildi. Dosyada tutuklu kalmadı.

9 July 2025 – PEN International joins partners in calling on the Seanad to take action over anti-SLAPP measures, calling it a missed opportunity to protect freedom of expression.

Paul Webb said he ensured books and material were pulled from children’s section of Kent libraries, but it emerges they were never there

KCC says the move came after a

04 July 2025 – PEN International joins international free expression, media freedom, human rights and journalists’ organisations in expressing deep concern over reports that an arrest warrant has been...

Submissions are now open for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025, judged by poets Sasha Dugdale, Seán Hewitt and Zaffar Kunial

30 June 2025 – English PEN, Scottish PEN, Wales PEN Cymru and PEN International are deeply concerned by the UK government’s proposal to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action under terrorism leg...

A panel of political, media, human rights and literary voices gather at The Conduit to discuss free expression in the UK in relation to the war in Sudan, and action that can be taken by media workers,...

Send a message of solidarity to imprisoned Egyptian poet and lyricist Galal El-Behairy