Jessica Sun
Jessica Sun is the program assistant for the Artists at Risk Connection program of PEN America. Previously, she was a research assistant for Dr. Ellen Chesler at the Roosevelt Institute, a communications intern for ARC, and an intern for American Ballet Theatre. She was a 2018 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) JSI Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a BA in political science and a certificate in public policy focusing on international development and human rights from Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College.
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Lebanese authorities are engaged in an "alarming" crackdown on critical free speech aimed at suppressing widespread demands for accountability over corruption and mismanagement, 14 rights organizations said on Monday.
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Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva has won a prestigious media award, just days after a Russian court found her guilty of “justifying terrorism” in a controversial case widely criticized as an attack on freedom of speech. https://bit.ly/3gT6zQE
Just as demand for political books was surging in Hong Kong after a year of protests, Hong Kong’s once unbridled and prolific independent publishers are now censoring themselves in the face of the new law.
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