Censorship

Repression in all its forms.

Three journalists to be tried before military court for publishing leaked fax about CIA prisons

February 8, 2007
By Jules Siegel

Reporters Without Borders today condemned a Swiss military court’s announcement yesterday that it has indicted three Swiss journalists working for the weekly SonntagsBlick for publishing a leaked document on 8 January 2006 “dealing with supposed places of detention and interrogation methods used by the US foreign intelligence service (CIA).”
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Judge orders RIAA to pay mom’s attorney’s fees

February 7, 2007
By Jules Siegel

EFF–Debbie Foster, a single mom who was improperly sued by the RIAA back in 2004 for file sharing, has won back her attorneys’ fees. The decision today is one of the first in the country to award attorneys fees to a defendant in an RIAA case over music sharing on the Internet. Last year,...
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Federal court rules in favor of man arrested for cursing

February 4, 2007
By Jules Siegel

DETROIT – The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision that Montrose Township police officer Stephen Robinson had probable cause to arrest Thomas Leonard in 2002 when Leonard cursed while addressing the township board.
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Teacher in Texas punished for showing slavery film clip

February 3, 2007
By Jules Siegel

FORT WORTH, Texas – An elementary school teacher was disciplined for showing her fifth-graders parts of the R-rated film “Amistad” during a lesson on slavery. On Jan. 25, Larue Washington showed her Ridglea Hills Elementary class clips from the 1997 Steven Spielberg film depicting slaves en route to the Americas, including a scene in...
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