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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.

					A França tem sido hipócrita quanto à liberdade de expressão?
				
No rescaldo dos homicídios de Charlie Hebdo, Arthur Asseraf examina a história da duplicidade dos critérios coloniais franceses na Argélia.

					Sem Noção em Gaza: A Imprensa Ocidental e o Conflito Árabe-Israelita
				
John Lloyd explora a história e a fraqueza da cobertura da imprensa ocidental, sugerindo uma maneira de a melhorar.

					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.

					Why the US needs more open debate about its failures on race
				
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington must be the beginning of the discussion of race, not the end. Bassam Gergi discusses why the depoliticisation of race in the US is problematic and only open debate can lead to progress.

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

					A diferença entre genocídio e crimes contra a humanidade
				
Costumamos destacar comentários que nos causaram uma boa impressão. Antoon de Baets deixou uma resposta esclarecedora na discussão de Josie Appleton sobre as leis de memória na França.

					Quando é que o discurso de ódio se torna em discurso perigoso? Vejam-se os casos do Quénia e a Ruanda
				
O julgamento do apresentador queniano Joshua Arap Sang, que está para breve, levanta questões vitais sobre a relação entre as palavras e a violência, defende Katherine Bruce-Lockhart.

					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.

					Liberdade para a história? O caso contra as leis da memória
				
Josie Appleton fala com Pierre Nora e Olivier Salvatori, sobre a iniciativa “Liberté pour l’Histoire” na França.

					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.

					A prática da liberdade
				
A líder pró-democrática de Mianmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, ressalta a importância da liberdade de expressão, mas chama atenção para o conceito budista sobre o “direito de expressão”.

					Guerra não é críquete
				
Um estudante indiano e um paquistanês de Oxford refletem sobre como seus países fizeram a cobertura de uma mesma história de maneiras diferentes.

					O futuro da liberdade de expressão
				
O ativista de direitos humanos Aryeh Neier fala sobre o futuro da liberdade de expressão.

					Um assassino tem o direito de ser esquecido?
				
Em 2008, dois assassinos condenados pediram que seus nomes fossem retirados da Wikipedia e outras páginas de internet citando uma lei alemã. Será que o direito individual de ser esquecido deve prevalecer em relação ao direito do público de saber?

					A busca pelos livros perdidos do Egito
				
O historiador Khaled Fahmy descreve como livros egípcios históricos são mais facilmente encontrados no Ocidente do que em livrarias egípcias e como um livro escolar sobre a história do Oriente Médio foi banido de entrar no país.

					Por que a “máquina de harmonização” da União Europeia deve ficar afastada da história
				
Claus Leggewie e Horst Meier explicam por que leis sobre memória são métodos equivocados para os europeus lembrarem e debaterem as dificuldades do passado.

					A sátira do livro de Hitler
				
O comediante alemão Serdar Somuncu recita trechos de Mein Kampf, livro escrito por Hitler, para destacar o absurdo da propaganda hitlerista, relata Sebastian Huempfer.

					A polêmica sobre o livro didático de história do Japão
				
Um livro japonês didático de história dá pouca importância às agresões do país durante a segunda guerra mundial e causou uma polêmica doméstica e internacional, relatam Ayako Komine e Naoko Hosokawa.

					Lei Francesa sobre o Genocídio Armênio
				
Em janeiro de 2012, o Senado francês aprovou uma lei que criminaliza o não-reconhecimento de qualquer genocídio reconhecido pelo Estado, relata Clementine de 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.

					A História reclassificada como segredo de Estado: o caso de Xu Zerong
				
O historiador Xu Zerong foi acusado de vazar informações secretas de Estado ao enviar cópias de textos sobre a Guerra da Coreia a um acadêmico sul-coreano em 2002. Os documentos foram classificados como “altamente secretos” somente depois que ele foi preso, escreve Lik Hang Tsui.

					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 na Turquia
				
O YouTube foi suspenso por três anos na Turquia, diante da alegação de que certos vídeos eram insultos à Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, o fundador da república moderna, ou ao “Turquismo”, relatam Funda Ustek e Kok Irem.

					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.

					A Vida Privada de um Herói Nacional
				
Um documentário que representou o fundador da República turca, Kemal Atatürk, como um “devasso bêbedo” foi entendido como um ataque à identidade turca, escreve Irem Kok e Funda Ustek. 

					Como os tabus turcos perpetuam a imaturidade
				
A professora Ayşe Kadıoğlu, da Universidade Sabancı, fala de sua experiência de crescer na Turquia, onde os tabus, muitos deles impostos pela lei, aprisionaram os cidadãos em um “estado de imaturidade”.

					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. 

					Crítica ao rei da Tailândia
				
O blogueiro anglo-americano Joe Gordon foi condenado a dois anos e meio de prisão na Tailândia por ter publicado em seu blog ligações para uma biografia não-autorizada do rei da Tailândia Bhumibol Adulyadej. Maryam Omidi examina o caso.

					A estrela pornô de histórias em quadrinhos na Índia
				
A decisão das autoridades indianas de proibir Savita Bhabhi, uma tira de quadrinhos on-line com uma dona de casa promíscua com um apetite insaciável por sexo, foi recebida com críticas na imprensa. Maryam Omidi avalia se a decisão foi correta.

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