Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
A gun attack in the southern city of Iguala, Guerrero State on 13 Feb left photographer Jean Paul Ibarra of local daily El Correo dead and reporter Jenny Luliana Marchán of Diario 21 injured. (more…)Category News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: Mexico,
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Reporter Punniyamurthy Sathyamurthy was killed during an air raid carried out by the Sri Lankan Army on the north of the country on 12 February. (more…)Category News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: Sri Lanka,
Monday, February 16th, 2009
The legal system forces once proud newspapers to grovel when faced with pressure from religious groups, says Salil Tripathi
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Category Comment, News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: Anil Kapoor, AR Rahman, India, Johann Hari, Maqbool Fida Husain, Salil Tripathi, statesman,
Friday, February 13th, 2009
On 14 February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran declared a death sentence on novelist Salman Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses. Twenty years on Lisa Appignanesi, recalls how a ground-breaking, visionary novel was hijacked and transformed into an international political cause
Plus: Bernard-Henri Lévy says the fatwa marked a retreat from tolerance
Kenan Malik on why Rushdie’s critics won the war
Peter Mayer on how Penguin faced down the threats
Malise Ruthven describes a political storm
Salil Tripathi says religious offence stifles debate
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Category Comment, Middle East and North Africa | Tags: Tags: Ayatollah Khomeini, fatwa, Iran, Islam, Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses,
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Dutch MP Geert Wilders is to be sent back to the Netherlands after attempting to enter the UK despite a Home Office ban. Read more hereCategory News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: Fitna, Geert Wilders,
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
On Sunday Russian neo-Nazi group BTO emailed a death threat to Galina Kozhevnikova, the deputy head of human rights research centre SOVA. (more…)Category Uncategorized | Tags: Tags: anti-extremism, Galina Kozhevnikova, neo-Nazis, Russia, Sova,
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Index on Censorship news editor Padraig Reidy was a guest on BBC Radio Five Live’s Breakfast show this morning, discussing the banning of Geert Wilders (right) from Britain, and its ramifications for free expression.
You can listen on iPlayer here (at 2hr 40min)
Category Uncategorized | Tags: Tags: Fitna, Geert Wilders,
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who has been told he will be refused entry to Britain to attend a screening of his film Fitna, has been allowed to board his flight from the Netherlands. Read more hereCategory News and Analysis | Tags: Tags: Fitna,
