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• Is SBY Paranoid?

  
  The RAB Experience — Authority: 126
  Wednesday, 9 December 2009, is International Anti-Corruption Day. The day is marked for protest. This is not all that surprising in light of the recent, and ongoing, Cicak vs. Buaya fiasco and the ever-present Bank Century scandal. There is still enough corruption in Indonesia to warrant a demonstration on most days, ...
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• Zimbabwe angry over radio “hate messages”

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 584
  The Zimbabwean government is reported to be lodging a formal diplomatic complaint with Botswana over the alleged transmission of foreign radio news broadcasts into their territory. The state-controlled Herald newspaper, closely aligned with the former ruling ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe, quoted Foreign ...
  3 days ago

• Speech Art

  
  cearta.ie — Authority: 126
  Randall P Bezanson has just pubished another very important book on on Art and Freedom of Speech (University of Illinois Press, 2009), exploring the decisions of the US Supreme Court relating to artistic expression under the First Amendment. From the abstract:… In considering the transformative meaning of art, the ...
  4 days ago

• Anti-trans? Or just anti-poor thinking?

  
  CaroLINES — Authority: 138
  I gather that a few people think Im anti-transgender, because I point out flaws in some of justifications. Or because I refuse to accept all of their claims, without question. One or two have suggested that Im some kind of self-hating tranny: a bit like all those homophobic gay Republicans we keep hearing about. At ...
  5 days ago

• The U.S. Shouldn’t Bless Honduras’s Flawed Elections

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  Elections took place Sunday, Nov. 29 in Honduras with National Party leader Porfirio Lobo declared the winner. But elections carried out under a state of emergency — with visible military and police presence, by a government installed by coup, with a…
  5 days ago

• Belarus human rights activists tell of life in exile

  
  Ethiopian Review — Authority: 442
  Belarusian youth activists sentenced to restricted freedom for attending a peaceful protest have told Amnesty International how they were targeted by the authorities, with police seeking to control almost every aspect of their daily lives.Seven activists were effectively placed under house arrest when they received ...
  5 days ago

• Pray for the Prime Minister’s visit to China

  
  Persecuted Church Weblog — Authority: 132
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives in China tomorrow during which time he will meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao.  Some of the PM’s political foes and some business leaders have accused Harper of neglecting China, Canada’s second largest trading partner after the United States.  It can also be argued, ...
  5 days ago

• Pakatan Rakyats actions just like BN - anti freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, protests, demonstration...

  
  CHARLES HECTOR — Authority: 132
  We oppose the ISA and Detention Without Trials - hence we must not be calling for the usage of these laws against any other Sedition Act - We are also opposed to this Act, and we have called for its repeal. Freedom of Assemble and Freedom of Expression - we are for this, and we say that this a fundamental right. ...
  5 days ago

• Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi conferred ‘Golden Pen of Freedom’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Hyderabad, Dec 1 (IANS) Prominent Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi was Tuesday presented the “Gold Pen of Freedom” award by World Association of Newspapers (WAN) for his outstanding contribution to the defence and promotion of press freedom.Sethi, editor-in-chief, Friday Times and Daily Times, Pakistan, received ...
  5 days ago

• Switzerland votes against religious freedom – AI

  
  Ethiopian Review — Authority: 442
  Amnesty International said it deeply regrets the choice of Swiss voters on Sunday to introduce a ban on the construction of minarets into the constitution.The ban, which takes immediate effect, violates both the freedom of religion of Muslims living in the country and the prohibition of discrimination on the grounds ...
  5 days ago

• The last Irish case on criminal libel

  
  cearta.ie — Authority: 126
  Yesterday’s Irish Times reminds me of an interesting High Court judgment handed down early in the Summer. It’s called Dennehy v Independent Star Ltd trading as The Irish Daily Star Newspaper [2009] IEHC 458 (28 May 2009) and it concerns an attempt to bring a prosecution for criminal libel. Section 8 of the ...
  5 days ago

• Iran: call for twin-track strategy on nukes – and support for Green opposition

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 431
  The Islamic Republic is now intensifying its ideological assault on Iran’s embattled democrats and reformists through a “soft war” or aggressive campaign of countersubversion. This battle for hearts and minds not only involves closing opposition publications and web sites, but placing Basij militia instructors ...
  6 days ago

• Penangs Foreshore Land Issue : Did the public lose access to a public beach/foreshore?

  
  CHARLES HECTOR — Authority: 132
  Did the Penang Pakatan Rakyat government just take away a part of the public beach - and make it private property? Beaches have always been accessible to the public - will it still be here? By the way, is this declassified minutes available on the Penang State Government website for easy access. Or, is there a ...
  6 days ago

• Defamation and the Constitution

  
  cearta.ie — Authority: 126
  “Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.” I have seen this variously attributed to Neils Bohr, Sam Goldwyn, and Yogi Berra. Whoever said it, it contains a grain of truth: when it comes to the future, all we can do is speculate. In my paper for last Saturday’s conference on Recent developments in ...
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• China’s Impolitic Artist, Still Waiting to Be Silenced

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 626
  The New York Times profiles artist and activist Ai Weiwei : At 52, Mr. Ai, a beefy, bearded man with an air of almost monastic composure, is an international figure in the art world, successful beyond what anyone might have predicted even a decade ago. He is a celebrated architect, a co-designer of Beijing’s ...
  1 week ago

• Belarusian youth activists speak out

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 113
  Five Belarusian youth activists sentenced to ‘restricted freedom’ for attending a peaceful protest have told Amnesty International how they were targeted by the authorities.Tatyana Tishkevich, Alyaksei Bondar, Mikhail Kryvau, Ales Straltsou and Ales Charnyshou will be following this blog and contributing to it ...
  1 week ago

• Judith Krantz: Sex and Shopping

  
  Erik's Choice — Authority: 130
  The closest thing to a romance novel Ive read is probably work by Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, certainly nothing by Judith Krantz . Nonetheless, because of her friendship with Sue Kaufman, I plunged into her very interesting nonfiction work (probably her final book), Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a ...
  1 week ago

• Stock pile of tear gas grenades in Honduras triggers fears

  
  Ethiopian Review — Authority: 442
  Amnesty International has learned that the de facto authorities in Honduras have stock piled 10,000 tear gas cans and other crowd control equipment, triggering fears of an increased risk of excessive and disproportionate use of force by security forces around the presidential elections. An Amnesty International ...
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• Moderating Comments: taming trolls and banning the bores (BeebCamp)

  
  Director's Blog — Authority: 127
  How do you moderate comments on a website without reducing free speech? Joanna Geary from The Times online @timesjoanna  is sick of being accused of gagging readers because they don’t put every abusive or banal reader comment up on the website. Anyone who looks at the comments on news/comment websites like The ...
  1 week ago

• Limiting Free Speech (38): Cheering on a Criminal

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 478
  Jodie Foster in The Accused ( source ) Can bystanders who cheer on a criminal invoke their right to free speech, or can the government prosecute them and hence limit their right to free speech? An infamous example is public rape , a particularly horrendous crime in which a man or group of men rapes a woman in a ...
  1 week ago

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