Freedom of speech

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• In Bahrain, human rights defenders are under attack – but we won’t be deterred

  20 Oct 2014: Maryam al-Khawaja: Activists are being tortured and imprisoned for speaking freely. We need international pressure on Bahrain’s allies: the UK and US

• Article 19's call to Google over 'right to be forgotten' ruling

  16 Oct 2014:

  Human rights group says data should remain in public domain

• Freedom to say what you really think

  13 Oct 2014: Banning extremists from saying what they think undermines one of the key cornerstones of democracy – no matter how hard it can be hear it, says Katharine Whitehorn

• Ex-wife of well-known performer obtains injunction against book to protect son

  11 Oct 2014: Book by well-known performing artist who cannot be named is based on his own experiences of childhood sexual abuse

• Salman Rushdie: hate-filled rhetoric of ‘jihadi cool’ is persuading British Muslims to join Isis

  10 Oct 2014: Alison Flood: The writer argues that those who have ‘horribly mangled’ the language of religion are targeting modernity

• Tokyo summons South Korean minister over journalist’s defamation charge

  9 Oct 2014: Tatsuya Kato of Sankei Shimbun indicted on suspicion of criminally libelling South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye

• Seeing the future of journalism - Index on Censorship's special issue

  8 Oct 2014:

  Magazine highlights the effects of the digital revolution

• Honduran TV news anchor banned from journalism for 16 months

  3 Oct 2014:

  Appeals court reinstates original journalistic ban

• May’s anti-terror plans will be open to abuse

  1 Oct 2014: Letters: Where will the censorship end? Investigative journalists, editors, actors, dramatists, criminalised for broaching the subject?

• Expanded spy powers pass parliament as lone Labor MP voices concerns

  1 Oct 2014: Melissa Parke, the only MP from a major party to speak out against bill, says laws could have a chilling effect on journalism

• Hilary Mantel’s Thatcher tale, Exhibit B and the failure to tell facts from fantasy

  30 Sep 2014: Letters: The reaction in these two cases shows the same failure to distinguish between historical facts on the one hand, and an imaginative response to them on the other

• Plan to silence extremists comes 20 years after end of Ulster broadcast ban

  30 Sep 2014: Ban was designed to deprive ‘terrorists of the oxygen of publicity’ but provided additional grievance for republican groups

• Google ethics tour: should readers be told a link has been removed?

  29 Sep 2014: Luciano Floridi: Meeting in Paris, the third public consultation of Google’s advisory council discussed search engines should notify users when information is de-linked

• Maldives will censor all books to protect Islamic codes

  25 Sep 2014: In a move condemned by free speech advocates, the islands’ government moves to curb literature and poetry’s ‘adverse effects on society’, reports Alison Flood

• Egypt’s human rights groups ‘targeted’ by crackdown on foreign funding

  24 Sep 2014: Vague wording on national unity in new decree has led to concerns that it will be used to silence journalists and activists

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