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					Peeing on Pétain
				
Eric Heinze examines the boundary between civil disobedience and desecration.  

					Should governments butt out of history?
				
Eric Heinze examines how states limit speech in order to control public awareness about the past.

					‘Lenin-fall’: free speech and the politics of memory in Ukraine
				
O.T. Jones argues that the Ukrainian state should not restrict open historical debate but use its ‘expressive’ powers to foster a nuanced understanding of the past.

					Law and historical memory: theorising the discipline
				
Free expression should not be considered as ‘just another’ human right. Any truly participatory political system cannot exist without it nor any legal system linked to such politics, argues Eric Heinze.

					In defence of Europe’s memory laws
				
There are two exceptional cases in which memory laws protect free speech, argue Grażyna Baranowska and Anna Wójcik.

					Free speech debates are more than ‘radicals’ vs ‘liberals’
				
Eric Heinze argues that the radicals and liberal grounds for free speech are not mutually exclusive.

					What next for Rhodes Must Fall?
				
Free Speech Debate organised a panel discussion on the Rhodes Must Fall campaign and its future. In this video and its highlights, panelists debate the range of issues surrounding the campaign and its impact on free speech. Panelists include Dr David Johnson, Professor David Priestland, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh and Monica Richter.

					When is speech dangerous?
				
Jonathan Leader Maynard examines the difficulties in assessing and managing the role of speech in violence.

					‘Oxford University has no regard for black life’
				
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh argues that Oxford has shown itself to have no regard for black life in its decision not to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes.

					Cecil Rhodes in Oxford: from unnoticed statue to political scapegoat
				
Monica Richter argues that the inward looking Rhodes Must Fall campaign detracts from greater issues of social justice.

					Le double discours de la France face à la liberté d’expression
				
Dans le sillage des assassinats de Charlie Hebdo, Arthur Asseraf examine l’histoire du deux poids, deux mesures de la colonisation française en Algérie

					Clueless in Gaza: Western media and the Arab-Israeli conflict
				
John Lloyd explores the history and weakness of Western media coverage, and suggests one way it could be improved.

					A new initiative to defend free speech in India
				
Hartosh Bal explains the role of the new Freedom Trust in the context of India’s media environment, and how they hope to defend freedom of expression.

					Salman Rushdie: What have been the most important changes to free speech in the last 25 years?
				
25 years after the fatwa and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Salman Rushdie discusses with Timothy Garton Ash whether there is now more or less freedom of expression in Europe, worrying developments in India and his critical view of Edward Snowden. 

					Should Europe introduce a right to blasphemy?
				
Alain Bouldoires talks to Timothy Garton Ash about the survival of blasphemy laws in Europe, and calls for a ‘right to blaspheme’.

					EU versus intellectual freedom?
				
In a bid to synchronise hate crimes, the EU is seeking unity amongst members states against the denial of historical injustices. Is this the EU versus member states’ appreciation of intellectual freedom? Luigi Cajani explains.

					The world through the eyes of Russian state television
				
Robert Coalson looks at how Russian television depicts everything from the crisis in Ukraine to the war in Syria.

					The long struggle to bury speech crimes in the English-speaking world
				
Anthony Lester and Zoe McCallum look at how the ghost of the English Court of the Star Chamber has been used to suppress free speech. 

					Ann Wright: Is secrecy necessary for peace and diplomacy?
				
Former US Diplomat Ann Wright speaks to Kim Wilkinson on the need for whistleblowers and institutions like WikiLeaks, but stresses that in some instances secrecy is necessary, such as in peace-making negotiations. 

					The importance of speaking Catalan
				
Pere Vilanova reflects on his personal experience of learning his ‘native’ tongue – as a third language.

					‘They used the oven to get tanned, you know…’
				
Marc-Antoine Dilhac recounts how he confronted anti-semitic prejudice in a French classroom, and argues that more good  comes from an open debate about hate speech than from banning it. 

					Germans are not especially concerned about privacy and sovereignty
				
Nazi past? Stasi past? Sebastian Huempfer challenges the conventional explanations for Germany’s strong reaction to Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA snooping.

					What does George Orwell mean to people in Burma?
				
At  the 2013 Irrawaddy Literary Festival, Burmese writers including Pascal Khoo Thwe and blogpoet Pandora talk about George Orwell in the country where he was once an imperial policeman.

					Les Etats-Unis ont besoin d’un débat plus ouvert sur leur échec en politique d‘intégration raciale.
				
La célébration du 50ème anniversaire de la marche sur Washington doit constituer le début d’une discussion sur les questions raciales, et non leur fin. Bassam Gergi explique que la dépolitisation de ce sujet aux Etats-Unis est problématique car seul un débat ouvert peut induire le progrès.

					Why shouldn’t a Hungarian historian call Jobbik “neo-nazi”?
				
Tamás Szigeti explores the asymmetric narrowing of free speech in Hungary.

					La différence entre génocide et crimes contre l’humanité
				
Nous revenons régulièrement sur certains commentaires qui nous ont marqué. Antoon de Baets avait ainsi commenté de manière perspicace la discussion de Josie Appleton sur les lois mémorielles en France.

					Quand les discours de haine deviennent-ils dangereux? Le cas du Kenya et du Rwanda
				
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart explore cette question vitale du lien entre mots et violence à la lumière du jugement de Joshua Arap Sang, présentateur kényan à la radio.

					Taming the gods: How should we deal with religious threats to free speech?
				
At the 2013 Jaipur Festival, Ian Buruma, Reza Aslan, Ahdaf Souief and Timothy Garton Ash, in conversation with Shoma Chaudhury, talk about the relationship between religion and politics and how to deal with religious threats to free speech.

					La liberté pour l’Histoire? Une étude contre les lois sur la mémoire
				
Josie Appleton s’entretient avec Pierre Nora et Olivier Salvatori au sujet de l’initiative «Liberté pour l’Histoire» en France.

					How has the internet changed the relationship between the writer and the state?
				
The relationship between writers and the state is complex, multifaceted and changing. At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2013 a panel of experts explores some of the issues faced by writers around the world.

					La pratique de liberté
				
Le combat pour la liberté commence par la liberté d’expression, nous explique l’icône de la démocratie en Birmanie, Aung San Suu Kyi.

					La guerre n’est pas une partie de cricket!
				
Deux étudiants d’Oxford, l’un d’origine indienne, l’autre d’origine pakistanaise, analysent comment leurs pays respectifs présentent la même histoire à leur manière. Par Zahra Shah et Debanshu Mukherjee.

					L’avenir de la liberté d’expression
				
Le militant pour les droits de l’homme Aryeh Neier nous parle de l’avenir de la liberté d’expression.

					Un meurtrier mérite-t-il le droit d’être oublié?
				
En 2008, deux meurtriers condamnés demandèrent que leurs noms soient retirés de Wikipédia et d’autres médias en accord avec la législation allemande. Est ce que le droit de l’individu à être oublié prime sur le droit du public de savoir?

					Egypt’s one-way traffic in books
				
Historian Khaled Fahmy describes how historic Egyptian books are more easily found in Western than in Egyptian libraries – and how a scholarly history of the Middle East was recently banned from entering Egypt.

					Pourquoi «la machine d’harmonisation » de l’UE devrait rester à l’écart de l’histoire
				
Claus Leggewie et Horst Meier expliquent pourquoi les lois mémorielles ne constituent pas de moyen approprié pour permettre aux Européens de se rappeler et de débattre de leur passé difficile.

					Mein Kampf utilisé comme satire
				
Le comédien allemand Serdar Somuncu récite des extraits de Mein Kampf pour mettre en évidence l’absurdité de la propagande de Hitler, explique Sebastian Huempfer.

					Controverse autour d’un nouveau manuel d’histoire du Japon
				
Ayako Komine et Naoko Hosokawa s’intéressent à un manuel d’histoire qui minimise l’impérialisme japonais défraie la chronique au niveau national et international.

					La loi française sur le génocide Arménien
				
En janvier 2012, le Sénat a voté une loi qui criminalisait la négation de tout génocide reconnu par l’Etat, explique Clementine Montjoye

					Japan: Korean ‘comfort women’ photo exhibit sabotaged
				
A South Korean photographer explains his ordeal in holding an exhibition in Japan that documents ageing ‘Comfort Women’, writes Lee Yoo Eun.

					How should publishers respond to protests for and against the publication of the same essay?
				
In 2011, three Indian scholars called on OUP India to re-publish an essay which had been denounced by Hindu extremists. Less than two weeks later, the publisher reversed its earlier decision not to re-publish.

					The vital presence of the past
				
History is a sensitive issue in China with some of it desperately remembered and some, deliberately forgotten, writes Judith Bruhn.

					Free speech in Turkey & the world – part two
				
Historian Halil Berktay discusses the denial by the Turkish state that the mass murders of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915 constituted a genocide.

					Free speech in Turkey & the world – part one
				
In the first past of this debate, research fellow Kerem Öktem argues that an individual’s understanding of free speech is shaped by their personal history and geography. 

					Hasan Cemal: Freedom of expression in Turkey
				
From communism to Kurdish separatism, the Turkish state has used a series of pretexts to deny freedom of expression to its citizens, says journalist Hasan Cemal.

					L’Histoire classée secret d’Etat: le cas de Xu Zerong
				
En 2002, l’historien Xu Zerong a été condamné à 13 ans de prison ferme pour avoir divulgué des secrets d’Etat. Ce n’est qu’après cette condamnation que les documents ont été classés « top secret », écrit Timothy Garton Ash.

					Susan Benesch: What is the difference between hate speech and dangerous speech?
				
Susan Benesch, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, discusses hate speech and dangerous speech with Timothy Garton Ash

					How should the law define dangerous speech?
				
A trio of human rights experts elaborate on the definition of dangerous speech and consider how hate speech is protected both in Europe and under the first amendment in the US. 

					Orville Schell: What controls are beneficial to a free society?
				
China’s attempt to both capitalise on and control the internet is « one of the greatest experiments » in the country’s history, says Orville Schell of the Asia Society.

					YouTube en Turquie
				
Youtube a été banni pendant trois ans en Turquie sous prétexte que certaines vidéos étaient insultantes envers Mustafa Kemal Atatürk le fondateur de la République turque moderne, et de “l’identité turque”, selon Funda Ustek et Irem Kok.

					Is criminalisation an effective way of eradicating fascism?
				
The co-chair of the German Green Party tells Free Speech Debate that fascist ideologies cannot be banned and must be confronted in a democratic way.

					La vie privée d’un héros national
				
Irem Kok et Funda Ustek nous explique comment un documentaire dépeignant le fondateur de la République turque, Kemal Atatürk, comme «débauché ivre» a été perçu comme une attaque contre l’identité turque.

					Ces tabous turcs qui perpétuent une forme d’immaturité
				
Le professeur Ayşe Kadıoğlu de l’Université de Sabancı nous livre ses impressions de sa jeunesse en Turquie où des tabous imposés par la loi enferme les citoyens dans «un état d’immaturité».

					Daniel Bell: What would Confucius make of free speech in the internet age?
				
Confucianism’s defence of political speech does not necessarily apply to other forms of expression, says Bell.

					Timothy Garton Ash at the Brandenburg Gate: Should we all become a bit more German, or not, when it comes to privacy?
				
Speaking at the Brandenburg Gate on the 22nd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Timothy Garton Ash, director of Free Speech Debate, discusses the new barriers to information and communication. 

					Critique du Roi Thaïlandais
				
Le blogeur américain Joe Gordon a été condamné à deux ans et demi de prison pour avoir publié des liens vers une biographie non-autorisée du Roi de Thailande Bhumibol Adulyadej sur son blog. Une étude réalisée par Maryam Omidi. 

					La Star du X des bandes dessinées en Inde
				
La décision des autorités indiennes de bannir Savita Bhabi, une bande dessinée en ligne qui met en scène la promiscuité d’une ménagère à l’appétit sexuel insatiable, a été reçue avec des critiques de la presse. Maryam Omidi tente de peser les tenants et les aboutissants de cette décision.

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