Regardless of frontiers
In this celebration of the 60th anniversary of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, AC Grayling says freedom of speech is the most precious of rights – giving us the chance of being fully human
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An open letter to President Medvedev
Memorial’s historical archive must be restored immediately. An open letter from Orlando Figes and some of the world’s leading academics
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Emblem of darkness
Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie marked a new era: a retreat from the ideal of tolerance and the spirit of the Enlightenment, says Bernard-Henri Lévy in this exclusive article from the new issue of
Index on Censorship
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Iran: media crackdown continues
Bahman Totonchi, a journalist for the former Kurdish weekly Karfto, was arrested on 18 November following a house search by intelligence agents. The authorities had been harassing the journalist since the closure of Karfto on 29 December last year, when the weekly’s licence was withdrawn for good on the grounds of “failure to publish regularly”. It is not known where Totonchi is now being held.
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