International attention helped Mubarak Bala survive his incarceration for discussing humanism and religion online.

On July 31, 2025, PEN America and 10 human rights organizations wrote to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Motaz Zahran urging him to raise our concerns about the detention of poet and PEN/Barbey ...

July 29 marks 1,095 days since the beginning of the arbitrary detention of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico and one of the most prominent voices in journalism in Guatemala and ...