{"id":41947,"date":"2012-11-12T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=41947"},"modified":"2012-11-23T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T11:52:54","slug":"21-nov-standing-up-to-blasphemy-laws-sanal-edamaruku-and-free-speech-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=41947","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: 21 Nov: Standing up to Blasphemy Laws: Sanal Edamaruku and free speech in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-42151 alignright\" title=\"sanal-edamaruku\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sanal-edamaruku-1024x576.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sanal-edamaruku-1024x576.gif 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sanal-edamaruku-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sanal-edamaruku-250x140.gif 250w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sanal-edamaruku.gif 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><strong>Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Wed 21 November, 1pm<br \/>\n<strong>Venue<\/strong>: Free Word Centre (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewordonline.com\/info\/visiting-us\/\">map here<\/a>)<br \/>\n<strong>Tickets<\/strong>: Free (<a href=\"http:\/\/sanalfreespeech.eventbrite.co.uk\/\">available here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Indian rationalist\u00a0<strong>Sanal Edamaruku<\/strong>, currently fighting blasphemy charges in India, is in London for just 2 days. Join New Humanist and Index on Censorship for a lively, rapid-fire lunchtime event looking at Sanal\u2019s case and more widely at the blasphemy laws in India today.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Sanal will be a panel of experts, including retired appeal court judge\u00a0<strong>Sir<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Stephen Sedley<\/strong>, phillospher\u00a0<strong>Professor\u00a0Richard Sorabji<\/strong>, journalist\u00a0<strong>Salil Tripathi<\/strong>\u00a0and free speech campaigners, to discuss the implications of the case for the future of blasphemy in India and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>This is a free event but there will be a chance to contribute to Sanal&#8217;s legal defence. Sign the change.org petition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/en-GB\/petitions\/we-call-on-the-catholic-archdiocese-of-bombay-to-encourage-the-withdrawal-of-complaints-against-indian-rationalist-sanal-edamaruku\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>21 Nov:<\/strong> Standing up to Blasphemy Laws: Sanal Edamaruku and free speech in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41947"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42386,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41947\/revisions\/42386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}