{"id":93738,"date":"2013-04-26T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=12087"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:34:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T08:34:28","slug":"free-expression-in-the-news-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=93738","title":{"rendered":"Free Expression in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Free speech issues making news around the world<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>TUNISIA<\/strong><br \/>\nCommentary: Graffiti case shows Tunisia&#8217;s new battle with free speech<br \/>\nTunisia, it turns out, does not consider political graffiti a public order offence, nor &#8220;harmful to the state of emergency&#8221;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/thenationalconversation\/comment\/graffiti-case-shows-tunisias-new-battle-with-free-speech\">The National<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>BURUNDI<\/strong><br \/>\nHuman Rights Watch penned a letter to President Pierre Nkurunziza on new media law<br \/>\nKenneth Roth, Executive Director of HRW, urged Burundi&#8217;s leader not to sign the new media law adopted by the country&#8217;s Senate on April 19, 2013, and to prevent it from being enacted in its current form. (<a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201304260201.html\">AllAfrica.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNITED STATES<\/strong><br \/>\nPro-life advocates prosecuted for lawful free speech activity<br \/>\nLife Legal Defense Foundation is urging the United States Supreme Court to review a First Circuit decision which severely limits free speech of pro-life advocates. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/04\/25\/pro-life-advocates-prosecuted-for-lawful-free-speech-activity\/\">LifeNews.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>ACLU takes up case of anti-abortion group<br \/>\nThe American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska is urging Alaska Governor Sean Parnell to provide more information about an incident involving state workers during a street protest in Juneau. The workers parked vans to block a banner from view of the state&#8217;s Captiol building. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anchoragepress.com\/news\/aclu-stands-up-for-anti-abortion-group\/article_18327de0-ade3-11e2-9f49-001a4bcf887a.html\">Anchorage Press News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Judge dismisses libel case against Tennessee state senator<br \/>\nA judge in northeast Tennessee is dismissing a $750,000 libel lawsuit against state Republican Sen. Stacey Campfield for publishing false information online about a Democratic candidate for the state House in 2008. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwichtime.com\/news\/article\/Judge-dismisses-libel-case-against-Sen-Campfield-4463711.php\">Greenwich Time<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Index on Censorship<\/strong>: Free Expression in the News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93738"}],"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=93738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}