Archive for the ‘Free Speech’ Category

Alex Aan’s trial begins Thursday Via:- Maryam Namazie Alex Aan‘s trial begins tomorrow, Thursday, with the first prosecution witnesses being called, according to Rafiq Mahmood. Alex is the 30 year old Indonesian civil servant who has been charged with ‘insulting’ Islam in an atheist group in Facebook. Rafiq says: This isn’t just for Alex but [...]

Film banned for blasphemy to be released after two decades The only film ever banned in Britain for being blasphemous is to be released   in its original, uncut form after more than two decades. In, 1996, Nigel Wingrove, the director, took the case to the European Court of Human Rights arguing that the ban violated [...]

Iran detains 6 documentary filmmakers, activists say September 19, 2011|By the CNN Wire Staff Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured on August 26, is being urged to free filmmakers and journalists. Iran has detained six documentary filmmakers on accusations that they worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Persian service, activists said on Monday.The International Campaign for [...]

Iran: Female Blogger Receives 50 Lashes Posted 15 September 2011 23:41 GMT Written byFred Petrossian These are the words Iranian blogger Somayeh Tohidloo wrote [fa] in her blog after receiving 50 whip lashes in Evin Prison on September 14, 2011: Be happy, for if you wanted to humiliate me, I confess that I feel my [...]

Neo-Nazi Authour Released for Being Old ‎Sunday, ‎11 ‎September ‎2011 [Bizarre - a country apparently wishing to rehabilitate a Fascist scrawler, whilst itself behaving like a Fascist State in denying free speech to its citizens?!] A fascist writer who has denied the Holocaust has been released from jail early for being advanced in years. Viennese [...]