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Straws in the Wind

I was at the House of Lords on Monday, listening to peers debate the Coroners & Justice Bill.  As previously mentioned, this Bill offers the chance to repeal the laws of criminal defamation and...

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Anatomy of Injustice

I’ve just attended the launch of the CPJ report Anatomy of Injustice: The Unsolved Killings of Journalists in Russia.  Index on Censorship hosted a debate as part of the Free Word Festival. Manana...

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Behzti is no longer taboo

While everyone else has been banging on about the election, I’ve been banging on about free speech.  Here’s a review that was commissioned for Index on Censorship and cross-posted at Comment is Free,...

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The Internet is A Really Nice Place

In the Independent, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes on the delights that post-colonials bring to the English language, and laments the decline of language and civility online: The future looks bright then,...

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A simple idea to help the pro-democracy movement in #Egypt: Publish

Tahrir Square – “The biggest think-tank in the Middle East” In the Western world, there is much hand-wringing over just how our people and governments can help the people of Egypt get a better...

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Azerbaijan's Terrible Record on Free Speech #Eurovison

More crossposting with the English PEN site. The state of free expression in Azerbaijan has be a major focus for English PEN in recent years. In 2009, we sent two of our members, Eva Hoffman and Alev...

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#LibelReform: The Perils of An Inadequate Response

First posted on OpenDemocracy The government has responded to grassroots pressure for libel reform, but its proposals do not go far enough towards genuinely safeguarding free speech on the internet and...

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Christian fundamentalists cause theatre cancellation

Just as we were discussing offence, blasphemy and Islam, a reminder that hard-line Muslims are not the only enemies of free speech.  Index on Censorship reports that The Reduced Shakespeare Company has...

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Hacked Off: Unwitting support for self-censorship?

There was some controversy last month surrounding free speech group Index on Censorship.  They’ve appointed Steve Coogan as a patron, but he is famously a part of the Hacked Off campaign which supports...

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