Two other prominent human rights defenders, Mohammed al-Qahtani – another ACPRA co-founder – and Essa al-Nukheifi, were held arbitrarily for more than two years beyond their prison terms before being ...

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet. Anti-censorship and encrypted tools are lifelines for ...

It was announced in January that Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian humanist leader, had been released from prison in August 2024 after more than four years of unjust detention for expressing his views on ...

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 ...