pen.org
All blocked
Every URL under pen.org that we can reach a verdict on — 11 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://pen.org, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 375 tests have been run under this domain since 2013-06-21, the most recent on 2026-08-23.
The site itself
http://pen.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://pen.orgas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.pen.orgBlockedhttps://www.pen.orgas of 2026BlockedPages and subdomains (7)
https://pen.org/press-release/deng-chuanbin-arrestas of 2026Blockedhttp://worldvoices.pen.orgBlockedhttp://www.pen.org/defending-writers/liu-xiaas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.pen.org/defending-writers/liu-xiaoboas of 2025Blockedhttp://www.pen.org/blog/liu-xia-rare-video-readingas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.pen.org/rapid-action/2014/02/19/le-quoc-quans-appeal-rejectedBlockedhttp://worldvoices.pen.org/advocacy/pen-appeal-gheyret-niyaz-dilshat-perhat-nureli-and-nijat-azatBlockedAbout pen.org and the Great Firewall
Every URL under pen.org that we can reach a verdict on — 11 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://pen.org, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 375 tests have been run under this domain since 2013-06-21, the most recent on 2026-08-23.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks pen.org. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
Each URL's status is its verdict over the last 90 days, the same one its own page headlines.