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<p><a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a82b7f1b970b-pi" style="FLOAT: left"><font face="Arial"><img alt="Globe" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a82b7f1b970b image-full " height="484" src="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a82b7f1b970b-800wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 156px; HEIGHT: 145px" title="Globe" width="442" /></font></a><font face="Arial"> </font></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 22px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 23px; FONT-FAMILY: "><font face="Arial"></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </p> <p style="FONT-SIZE: 9px"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 22px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 23px; FONT-FAMILY: "><font face="Arial"></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 15px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 22px; FONT-FAMILY: "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 23px; FONT-FAMILY: "><font face="Arial">Global Free Speech Update</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><br /><br /> <br /> <p><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6839939.html"><font face="Arial">Iran:</font></a><font face="Arial">  Iran this week broadcast the execution of two men convicted of "counterrevolutionary" acts and defying god.  Bad enough that Iranian authorities say the charges were justified on account of the men's involvement in protests surrounding June's disputed election results, but it's likely that's not even true.  Instead, those protests are being used as a pretext for allowing authorities to pretty much execute who they want, when they want, for whatever they want, and there doesn't seem to be much the international community can do about it. </font></p> <p><a href="http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/france-moves-ahead-on-ban-of-full-face-veils-and-burkas/19332042"><font face="Arial">France:</font></a><font face="Arial">  A parliamentary panel recommended in a 200 page report that women be prohibited from wearing a niqab in public office buldings, schools, and hospitals, and while traveling on mass transit.  The niqab, a full face veil that leaves only a slit for the eyes, is worn by approximately 2000 Muslim women currently living in France.  Authorities say the move is necessary to liberate women from "the black tide of fundamentalism," but opponents fear it will provoke a backlash and put some women in danger if their families discover them unveiled in public.  A ban against head scarves in public schools is already in place.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202439515530&Globalizing_the_First_Amendment_in_the_st_Century"><font face="Arial">US:</font></a><font face="Arial">  Lee Bolinger chats with Law.com about Chinese censorship, Russian media threats, and the financial fragility of the American press.  Oh, and he's also got a new book: </font><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Uninhibited-Robust-Wide-Open-Century-Inalienable/dp/019530439X"><font face="Arial">Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century</font></a><font face="Arial">.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/7037762/Geert-Wilders-in-Dutch-court-over-anti-Islam-comments.html"><font face="Arial">Netherlands</font></a><font face="Arial">:  Geert Wilder went on trial this week (</font><a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/firstamendment/2009/09/blame-the-muslims-no-wait-its-the-jews-actually-maybe-the-problems-with-the-prosecutor-.html"><font face="Arial">prior post here</font></a><font face="Arial">).  It's worth checking out the </font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBjn9QPLEZE&feature=player_embedded#"><font face="Arial">Youtube clip</font></a><font face="Arial"> of his opening statement, where Wilder's quotes Thomas Jefferson (good), but then asks for expert testimony to demonstrate the "truth" of his comments that Islam equates to Nazism, and the Quran to Mein Kampf (bad).</font></p> <p><font face="Arial">-Kathleen Bergin  </font></p>

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).