{"id":70224,"date":"2015-10-07T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=70224"},"modified":"2016-11-08T15:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T15:10:21","slug":"criminalising-free-speech-index-condemns-summonsing-of-bahar-mustafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=70224","title":{"rendered":"Criminalising free speech: Index condemns summonsing of Bahar Mustafa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We condemn the decision to summons Bahar Moustafa to court. Media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;rlz=1C1CHFX_enGB624GB638&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=mustafa+bahar&amp;tbm=nws\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on October 6\u00a0that Mustafa &#8212; who once wrote a tweet with the\u00a0hashtag\u00a0#KillAllWhiteMen &#8212;\u00a0had received a court summons for malicious communications. Although we do not have the full details for this summons, it is clear that this particular remark by Mustafa posed no direct and imminent danger to anyone \u2013 and this is the only test that must be applied when considering limits to free expression. The charges demonstrate once again the problems with this piece of legislation, and others that criminalise free speech, and the way in which these laws are interpreted,&#8221; Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index on Censorship said.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa, an employee of the independent students&#8217; union at Goldsmiths, University of London,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.met.police.uk\/news\/woman-summonsed-to-court-after-malicious-communication-complaint-132033\" target=\"_blank\">has been ordered<\/a>\u00a0to appear at Bromley Magistrates&#8217; Court on 5 November related to sending\u00a0a threatening message between 10 November 2014 and 31 May this year, and one of sending a menacing or offensive message via a public network, between the same dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summonsing of Bahar Mustafa to court to face two malicious communications charges is a clear example of the criminalisation of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":67556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5641,366,6534],"tags":[7646,5081,5084],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70224"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70376,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70224\/revisions\/70376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}