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So says AC Grayling over at Comment is Free. Professor Grayling, normally known as a quite strident critic of religion, points out that Articles 18 (which guarantees freedom of worship) and 19 (freedom of speech) of the UN Declaration on Human Rights must be read together: they embody the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom to express one’s conscience.
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The Burmese people are still experiencing the backlash from the Saffron Revolution, with more and more writers, satirists and dissidents being locked up. Read Index on Censorship and Article 19’s joint statement on the situation here (pdf).
Meeting Garry Kasparov and President Medvedev on a recent trip, John Kampfner found little cause for optimism
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The UK government’s record on free expression has been harshly criticised in a United Nations report. Defamation laws allowing for ‘libel tourism’, and sweeping incitement to terrorism legislation, were singled out as dangers to free speech.
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