Index Index – International free speech round up 12/02/13

Index Index – International free speech round up 12/02/13
Egyptian Salafi preacher Ahmed Mahmoud Abdulla — known as Abou Islam — recently made remarks justifying sexual violence against female protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, claiming that women who join protests are asking “to get raped”. The preacher, who owns private religious television channel Al-Ummah, has previously stirred controversy when he burnt a Bible outside the US Embassy in Cairo during last year’s protests over anti-Islam film the Innocence of Muslims. In a video posted online last Wednesday, Abdulla said that women who join the protests are “either crusaders who have no shame or widows who have noone to control them”. He also described them as “devils”, and added that “they talk like monsters”. A few days before he made […]
Padraig Reidy: “RIOT” and the problems of life online
Index Index – International free speech round up – 11/02/13
Many, many things will be written about the papacy of Benedict XVI in the coming days (as a good summary of Ratzinger's reign, I'd highly recommend this from John Hooper). For me, it's worth noting, briefly, Joseph Ratzinger's historic association...
Index Index – International free speech round up 08/02/13
Index Index – International free speech round up 07/02/13
Padraig Reidy: Is this America’s Twitter Joke Trial?
Daisy Williams: Censors ensure China’s film fans are missing the big picture
Index Index – International free speech round up 06/02/13