八九学运领袖王丹同著名作家欣然探讨天安门学运结果及其遗产
CATEGORY: Volume 38.02 Summer 2009
回忆天安门
作家薛欣然对话天安门学运领袖、学者、人权活动家王丹博士,讨论1989年天安门学运及其影响。
Libel: Thai travails
Tesco has dropped its libel case against Thai columnist Kamol Kamoltrakul (pictured). But the libel laws in Thailand are still hostile to journalists, as Sinfah Tunsarawuth explained in Index on Censorship’s “Big Chill” issue
The big chill
From London to Bangkok, defamation laws are a global chill on free speech. For repressive regimes, they are a common tool for silencing dissent; in liberal democracies, they remain one of the greatest challenges to press freedom.
Through the looking glass
English libel law turns US protection for free speech on its head. Floyd Abrams considers how the UK became an international libel tribunal English...