1. Authorities step up offensive against journalists and websites
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders is concerned about freedom of expression in Bahrain. In the past couple of months, two journalists have been charged because of what they wrote and the information ministry has stepped up Internet filtering.
   
2. Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
3. Burmese authorities detain freelance journalist
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns and calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist and blogger Pai Soe Oo, who was detained by government authorities on Wednesday for questioning.
4. Canadian Authors Association
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. Censorship and Education
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
6. Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
7. Communication severed with flotilla media
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders urges the Israeli authorities to release a list of the journalists who were arrested during yesterday’s raid on the humanitarian flotilla and to say where they are being held.
   
8. Dissident journalist facing jail term on 'disrespect' charge
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of independent journalist Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet, who was arrested after a verbal exchange with a policeman in Artemisa (in Havana province) on 18 April.
9. Egypt: Security authorities confiscate book about corruption
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that the Egyptian security authorities have confiscated a book entitled "A Flood of Corruption and the Advance of bin Laden in Algeria" by the Algerian writer, Anwar Malek.
10. 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
    And Important Facts to Know about Censors
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
11. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
    
12. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
13. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
14. Fundamentalists target Twitter and Facebook in unprecedented move
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders deplores the ruling by an Islamic court ordering a Nigerian human rights group, the Civil Rights Congress, to close its blog and stop hosting debates on Twitter and Facebook about the use of amputation to punish theft.
15. Google rebels against China’s Internet censors
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders hails US Internet giant Google’s announcement yesterday that it will stop censoring the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn – a move that could lead to Google.cn’s closure and Google’s withdrawal from China.
16. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning “defamation of religions” which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
17. IFJ Condemns Attempts by Embattled Food Company to Censor Free Speech in US
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned as "unforgiveable censorship" attempts by the US fruit company, Dole Food, to prevent the release of a documentary film Bananas which exposes threats to the health of banana plantations
18. IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsin, who has been denied re-entry to the country.
19. IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-Jazeera
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Palestinian Authority to rescind its decision to close down the office the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in the West Bank.
20. IFJ Report Lists China’s Secret Bans on Media Reporting
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2009.
21. Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
22. Iraq: News website latest target in government’s legal offensive against independent media
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi government’s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
23. Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military information.
24. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
25. More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently imprisoned in the country.
26. New online censorship campaign extinguishes last flicker of Olympic torch
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    China's campaign against 'Internet porn' is targetting political and human rights websites such as Amnesty International's. Bullog (http://www.bullog.cn), a political blog portal, has been inaccessible since 9 January.
27. New Yemeni press court sentences, bans journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end the intensifying judicial and media campaign to silence critical journalists and eradicate press freedom.
28. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
29. Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    he Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
30. Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
31. Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Bad… Put Free Speech on the Menu.
    Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundraiser, ARTFUL DISH, Thursday, June 4, 10 AM.
32. US and European companies jointly responsible for Internet censorship
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders has called for the need for legislation to allow US and European Internet companies operating in repressive countries to escape rules imposed on them by these governments.
33. Barrie Zwicker
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    

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2. Connexions Information Sharing Services
3. Connexions Library/Archive
4. Museum of Sex
5. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
6. Radical Digressions
7. Barrie Zwicker