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The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung Marx, Karl Article 1843 The German press begins the New Year with apparently gloomy prospects. The ban that has just been imposed on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung in the states of Prussia is surely a sufficiently convinci... CIA Chief Declares War on Truth BoardmAN, William Article 2017 Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether c... Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction Marx, Karl Article 1842 The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people. Connexions: Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change Serial Publication (Periodical) 1986 Connexions: Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1988 Connexions Digest: Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1990 Connexions Digest: Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1992 Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression Article 2011 The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression. Enemies of the Internet 2013: Sources News Release Article 2013 Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other Hentoff, Nat Book 1992 Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the effo... Here come the thought police Spratt, Michael; Moore, Chelsea Article 2014 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.” Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December Article 2010 An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court o... Israel's new 'attack on freedom of speech' Cook, Jonathan Article 2010 The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups. Kill The Messengers: Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know Bourrie, Mark Book 2015 Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack. Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks York, Jillian Article 2010 Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom. On Atena Farghadani and the longstanding repression of artistic expression in Iran Article 19 Article 2015 It all started with a harmless political cartoon posted on Facebook. What followed was extreme retaliation to say the least; imprisonment, and physical abuse. Unfortunately, this is not an extraordina... On Freedom of the Press (5): Censorship Marx, Karl Article 1842 A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in genera... On Freedom of the Press (1): Prussian Censorship Marx, Karl Article 1842 Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imagina... On Freedom of the Press (2): Opponents of a Free Press Marx, Karl Article 1842 What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press! On Freedom of the Press (3): On the Assembly of the Estates Marx, Karl Article 1842 Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly - and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? - precisely for that reason freedom... On Freedom of the Press (4): As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind? Marx, Karl Article 1842 From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment ... On Freedom of the Press (6): Freedom in General Marx, Karl Article 1842 Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends! On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws Engels, Friedrich Article 1842 Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet... Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective Article 2009 Control of news in time of war has become a military objective. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015: Land seizures and land take-overs Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a... PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze Addley, Esther Article 2010 PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department. Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion Turk, James L Article 2017 Not only are censorship and suppression fatal to the purpose of the university, they undermine the foundation of democratic society. When individual rights to freedom of expression are diminished or t... Semantic Warfare: Words as Guided Missiles Noh, K.J. Article 2015 Over half a century ago, the South Korean government banned the word "labour" from the Korean language. This is the back story. Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship Davidson, Lawrence Article 2018 In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the ag... Unveiled: Art and Censorship in Iran Boyle, Kevin et al. Article 2006 This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and ... A War on Wikileaks?: Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon Forte, Maximillian C. Article 2010 If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants t... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesInternational Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House IFEX is comprised of 72 organizations from around the world who work together to promote and further freedom of expression. The IFEX communique is available in a number of languages as a weekly e-new... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryBahrain Court Upholds Six Month Sentence Against Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Over Tweet Al Hussaini, Amira 2015 Nabeel Rajaba has been sentenced to prison for a tweet accusing the Bahrain security agencies for incubating ISIS combatants. Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch Sources News Release 2009 Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch. Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature Darnton, Robert 2014 A book on literary censorship and the role that states have played in it. Censorship Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Censorship is the suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, m... Censorship not a solution to terrorism, IFJ & Pakistan media reject guidelines Sources News Release 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) expresses its strong concern over new press guidelines for Pakistan's television and print media. "ChinaLeaks" Stories Censored in Mainland China Hudson, Michael; Guevara, Marina Walker; Olesen, Alexa 2014 Chinese authorities move aggressively to block online access to news reports exposing the secrecy-cloaked offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elites. China's Media War: Censorship, Corruption & Control Sources News Release 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) yesterday released the seventh annual China Press Freedom Report, CHINA'S MEDIA WAR: Censorship, Corruption & Control. China's new leadership faces censorship challenge Sources News Release 2013 China's new leaders will face unprecedented challenges to controlling the media, even as journalists' efforts to test the system continue to carry great risk, according to a new report by the Committe... Chinese authorities must come clean on air pollution film ban Sources News Release 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the decision by the Cyberspace Administrative and Central Propaganda Department of China to ban the online documentary Under the Dome ... Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned Sources News Release 2011 Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes. Deprived of income, Azerbaijani paper is forced to stop publishing 2014 One of Azerbaijan’s leading independent newspapers, the Russian-language Zerkalo (Mirror), has been forced to stop publishing because government control of the advertising market and distribution netw... Dissident journalist facing jail term on 'disrespect' charge Sources News Release 2009 Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of independent journalist Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet, who was arrested after a verbal exchange with a policeman in Artemisa (in Havana provin... Editor of Chinese website, missing for a month, arrested on anti-state charges Comittee to Protect Journalists 2015 An editor and secretary-general of a human rights group in China has been was abducted and charged with "inciting subversion of state power" by the Chinese government. The chinese government is infamo... Egypt: Security authorities confiscate book about corruption Sources News Release 2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that the Egyptian security authorities have confiscated a book entitled "A Flood of Corruption and the Advance of bin Laden in Algeria" ... Eritrea - last in the World Press Freedom Index for the past eight years Sources News Release 2015 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails this week's report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea. The report says some of the human rights violations by President Issayas Afeworki's... Fanning the flames of intolerance The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation Henley, John 2010 A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes. Global media rights groups condemn "culture of impunity and indifference" in Sri Lanka Sources News Release 2009 Since the beginning of the New Year, both the killing of a senior editor and the attack on the facilities of a popular independent TV channel have led to a total paralysis of the media community in Sr... Guatemala: Officials prevent indigenous radio station from reopening Sources News Release 2015 Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the continuing persecution of community radio stations in Guatemala, where the mayor of Santa Eulalia, in the western department of Huehuetenango, forcibly prev... Haaretz reporter Uri Blau facing up to seven years in prison 2011 Journalist faces heavy jail sentence for using classified military papers to document human rights abuses and murders by the Israeli military. A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China Phillips, Tom 2017 Peter Dahlin tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People's Republic of China, where he spent 23 days in a 'black prison' in Beijing and was deprived of sleep and questioned with... IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel Sources News Release 2010 The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsi... IFJ Condemns Israeli Forces' Threat To Censor Palestinian Newspapers Sources News Release 2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the actions of Israeli soldiers who forced their way into the Ramallah headquarters of the press, publishing and distribution company, a... IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-Jazeera Sources News Release 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Palestinian Authority to rescind its decision to close down the office the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in the West Bank. IFJ Condemns Return to State Censorship after Journalist's Expulsion in Russia Sources News Release 2011 The international Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused Russia of stepping back into the shadows of censorship and political intolerance after The Guardian's Moscow correspondent Luke Harding... IFJ and EFJ oppose media restrictions in the newly-enacted Spanish Public Security Law Sources News Release 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have joined their Spanish affiliates FAPE, FESP, FSC-CC.OO. and ELA-Gizal... IFJ Report Lists China's Secret Bans on Media Reporting Sources News Release 2010 A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2... IFJ Welcomes Lifting of Ban on Al-Jazeera in West Bank Sources News Release 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the decision of the Palestinian Authority to revoke its order of 15 July to close Al-Jazeera's office in the West Bank. Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests Sources News Release 2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to pr... Iran: Book Censorship The Rule, Not The Exception Sarkouhi, Faraj 2007 Censorship in Iran has intensified over the last two years, with many books appearing only in expunged versions, while others previously available have had subsequent print runs banned. Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media Sources News Release 2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media. Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach Sources News Release 2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in Decem... Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East Jerusalem Sources News Release 2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem. Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally Sources News Release 2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military informa... Journalist gets seven-year jail sentence for decade-old articles Sources News Release 2014 Reporters Without Borders condemns the seven-year jail sentence that a Dhaka court imposed today on former magazine editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury in connection with articles criticizing Islamism... Journalist harassed and intimidated by police officers in Cairo after article on curruption 2009 Police officers have led organised attacks against Alaa Al Gamel, a reporter for weekly Sout Al Ouma. Journalists convicted of defamation in Myanmar Sources News Release 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Myanmar Journalists Association (MJA) are outraged by the conviction of two journalists on charges of defamation. Kuwait: New Cyber Crimes Law restricts free expression and targets online activists Sources News Release 2016 Kuwait: New Cyber Crimes Law restricts free expression and targets online activists Leading news website blocked in 3 Arab countries Sources News Release 2016 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its deep concerns today following the blocking of news web site al-Araby al-Jadeed and its English counterpart The New Arab, in Saudi Ar... Letter to the Lithuanian Government on Banning Russian Government-Controlled TV Channels Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust; Inter American Press Association; et al. 2015 This is an open letter to the Lithuanian government. While broadcasts from Russian-controlled television channels may be propagandistic, banning them would be a violation of basic human rights and ult... Long jail terms for three bloggers Sources News Release 2014 Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the long jail terms that three Saudi cyber-activists received this week. Blogger and human rights activist Raef Badawi's sentence for 'insulting Islam'; was in... The mass graves of Kashmir India's dirty war unmasked Scott-Clark, Cathy 2012 For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses. Media concerns as "dictator law" replaces martial law in Thailand Sources News Release 2015 Journalists' organizations express strong concern over the issuing of a new order by the military regime to replace martial law. Media Freedom You will be harrassed and detained Adam, Brad 2007 This report analyzes how the Chinese government is failing to fulfill its commitments to respect the reporting freedom of foreign correspondents during the period of the temporary regulations and is i... Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content Sources News Release 2009 Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report ... More websites blocked at government's behest Sources News Release 2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the directive issued by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to Internet Service Providers instructing them to block access to 6 web pages on the grounds they a... New extremism laws would stifle free speech Index on Censorship 2015 New and vaguely defined counter-extremism laws threaten freedom of speech in the UK. Anyone who disagrees with the government can, theoretically, be banned from media exposure. Omani authorities persecute online activists Sources News Release 2015 The frequency with which bloggers and social network users are arrested and convicted in the Sultanate of Oman reflects the appalling state of online freedom of information and expression there. The Organised Suppression of Kurdish Journalists in Iran Goli, Ammar 2015 It has been nearly 120 years since the first Kurdish newspaper, 'Kordestan' was published – a publication which did not in come into existence here in Kurdistan, but in exile in Egypt, its later life ... Petition launched for release of two Burmese bloggers serving sentences of 20 and 59 years in prison Sources News Release 2009 Reporters Without Borders urges the international community not to forget Nay Phone Latt or or Zarganar, one of Burmaâ##s best known comedians. Security agency raids Shabelle Media Network again, two held Sources News Release 2015 Reporters Without Borders condemns the latest raid by Somalia's National Security and Intelligence Agency (NISA) on Radio Shabelle and Sky FM, two Mogadishu-based radio stations Security laws attack Australia's press freedom Sources News Release 2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in describing the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill No 1 an outrageous ... Seizure of AP phone records condemned as 'grave violation' Sources News Release 2013 Reporters Without Borders regards the US Department of Justice's seizure of the records of thousands of Associated Press phone calls as an "extremely grave violation of freedom of information." SOS Media Burundi's dangerous reporting mission Sources News Release 2016 Almost the only relief for those in search of news in Burundi is to be found at SOS Media Burundi, a collective of journalists that emerged spontaneously within 48 hours of the destruction of the radi... Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom Sources News Release 2009 Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom. Three emblematic victims of Syria's ruthless censorship Sources News Release 2015 On the eve of a long-delayed decision in the trial of Mazen Darwish, the head of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), and two of his assistants Reporters Without Borders reiter... Turkey, enemy of the Internet? Sources News Release 2014 The 9th annual Internet Governance Forum will be held in Istanbul from 2 to 5 September. Reporters Without Borders will be there to denounce the increasing violations of freedom of information in Turk... Turkey's parliament approves even more Internet censorship and surveillance Sources News Release 2014 Turkey: Government agency given more power to block websites and gather user data. Ugandan journalist’s damning account of UAE media censorship 2014 The Emirati English-language newspaper The National fired Ugandan journalist Yasin Kakande for writing an autobiographical novel describing the conditions of migrant workers and media censorship in th... Widodo's lifting of ban on foreign media in Papua is step in right direction Crispin, Shawn 2015 Journalists and citizens celebrate freedom of press and speech as a 50-year blackout of international media is lifted in Papua, Indonesia. Win Tin's fight for press freedom and democracy goes on Sources News Release 2014 Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn of the death of the dissident journalist Win Tin in Rangoon. Burma has lost one of its staunchest defenders of democracy and freedom of informatio... With limited independent press, Ethiopians left voting in the dark Mengesha, Simegnish 2015 In a country where journalists are often imprisoned or exiled for 'inciting terrorism', Ethiopians are finding it difficult to stay informed for the upcoming election. Zunar targeted again under Malaysia's Sedition Act Sources News Release 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the Malaysian governmen's continued attack against freedom of expression, following the investigation into political cartoonist, Z... |
