19 Feb 2008 | Digital Freedom, News and features
Finnish blogger Matti Nikki is facing an investigation into whether he aided the distribution of child pornography. The anti-censorship campaigner’s website, on which he published a list of over 1,500 websites that have been blocked by the Finnish authorities, has itself been closed down.
Authorities in Finland have had the right to block foreign sites that contained child pornography since late 2006. However, Nikki’s site is located in Finland, and does not itself contain any pornography. Of the sites he has listed, only two are known to contain images of children.
Read Matti Nikki’s full account here
19 Feb 2008 | News and features
Publication of magazine weekly Myanmar Nation has been suspended following the arrest of the paper’s chief editor, Thet Zin and manager, Sein Win Maung on 15 February.
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19 Feb 2008 | News and features
A poster advertising a new play has been banned from Angel underground station in London after regulators decided it was “likely to offend ethnic, religious or other major groups”. The poster, for the play Fat Christ by Gavin Davis, shows the playwright wearing boxer shorts and standing in a crucifixion pose.
Reverend Stephen Coles, of St Thomas’s Church in nearby Finsbury Park criticised the move, saying: “The itch to censor is something one should resist. We’re grown-ups and Jesus can defend himself. One has to be a little wary of indulging the super-sensitive.”
Read more here
18 Feb 2008 | Middle East and North Africa, News and features
The 2002 draft of the British government’s dossier on Saddam Hussein’s weapons capabilities has been released by the Foreign Office. The government had initially tried to keep the document confidential, but the Information Commissioner ruled that it had to comply with the Freedom of Information Act request of campaigner Chris Ames.
Read Chris Ames’s article “Unfinished Business” here
Read wmd dossier here
