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Two journalists making a documentary on how the United Nations handles human rights issues were ejected from a UN meeting in Geneva earlier this week. The subjects under discussion at the meeting were freedom of expression and “defamation of religion”. The expulsion was ordered at the behest of the Organisation of Islamic Conference. Two journalists [...]
Harry Nicolaides, an Australian expatriate living in Thailand, has been sentenced to three years for lèse-majesté. He was arrested last August and charged with insulting the monarchy in a single paragraph of his 2005 novel Verisimilitude. At trial this week, Mr Nicolaides was initially sentenced to six years, but his term was halved because he [...]
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that Saudi authorities have arrested Hamoud Bin Saleh (at right) and blocked his blog following his online announcement that he has converted from Islam to Christianity. Based on information obtained by ANHRI, the Saudi authorities jailed the young blogger at the infamous Eleisha political prison in [...]
A columnist at USA Today notices that Christians are fighting human trafficking and spins it as “a new face of the ‘pro-life’ movement”. It’s really an old face, of course, but publicity for the cause is always welcome. Now that he knows the name of a young enslaved prostitute in Indonesia — it’s Eka, pronounced [...]
A Pakistani-born Christian minister hosted a radio show in Glasgow for six years, but was fired after an on-air religion discussion between a Muslim and a Christian. The director of Awaz FM stated that Rev Mahboob Masih allowed the Christian speaker to make offensive remarks but failed to specify any allegedly offensive content. Rev Masih [...]
Russian authorities don’t like publicity about public dissatisfaction arising from the economic recession. On 29 December, agents from the department in charge of fighting terrorism and extremism arrested opposition politician Alexandr Bragin for reporting the news. His offense: publishing an article about the effects of the country’s sharp economic downturn on Ulyanovsk, a Volga city [...]
Pseudonymous British blogger-bobby PC David Copperfield moved to Edmonton, Alberta, about a year ago. Some people have asked him about the main differences between policing in the UK and in Canada. Much police work remains the same, of course, but there are notable differences. British police have more powers (to stop, search, arrest) but are [...]
So says the National Post editorial board in a remarkable commentary that begins with the current financial and economic crisis and ends with the never-changing relevance of Christmas. Sic transit gloria mundi — thus passes away the glory of the world, the old Latin phrase puts it. In 2008, the glory of money took the [...]
Religious authorities in Ghazni province, eastern Afghanistan, have ordered state radio not to transmit female voices over the airwaves. Yesterday December 10, 2008, the national radio of Ghazni province received an official letter written by Provincial Chief of Religious Affairs that demands to ban broadcasting any female voice in news, performance and talk show etc. [...]
In Australia, as in Canada, “liberals”, far more than conservatives, promote restrictions on free expression and the free flow of information. The Australian left isn’t saying much about it, so it falls to the libertarians at Britain’s spiked to spread the news: The proposed scheme to impose compulsory filtering on Australia’s internet originated with “progressive” [...]
Journalism Doctor John Miller has responded to Mark Steyn’s latest challenge with a conciliatory gesture—sort of. He acknowledges Mr Steyn’s verification of a contentious quotation from Ayatollah Khomeini, but maintains that Steyn presents his views in a way that is unfair to Muslims. Strangely, Miller even claims that there are essential differences between two independent [...]
The Chumir Foundation has posted videos of the Joseph Howe Symposium held at University of King’s College, Halifax, on 1 November. They can be viewed at the foundation’s website and at YouTube. The series of videos covers only each speaker’s prepared remarks. I have sent an e-mail asking whether there are plans to post videos [...]
“Uncovering The Darker Side Of Forced Marriage” — [Glasgow] Daily Record, 1 December 2008
Commenting in today’s National Post on the significance of the Moon Report, Liberal MP Keith Martin says it’s time for Parliament to act on free speech. While Prof. Moon’s report is excellent, the actual power to implement his recommendations, or any others that relate to the CHRA, resides not with the commission but with Parliament. [...]
The long-delayed Gun N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy has finally been released. China is not amused. A newspaper published by China’s ruling Communist Party is blasting the latest Guns N’ Roses album as an attack on the Chinese nation. […] In an article Monday headlined “American band releases album venomously attacking China,” the Global Times [...]
