- WikiLeaks cables: US espionage law
Although insiders who have leaked sensitive information before have been prosecuted, cases have rarely resulted in convictionThe US Espionage Act is a little-used law dating from 1911 – the same year as the UK's Official Secrets Act, with which it has much in common.The current law can be used to prosecute those who leak and publish classified information that creates a national security risk. But experts say the purpose of the act is primarily to tackle espionage, and that it has never been invoked successfully against a media organisation.Although insiders who have leaked sensitive information have been prosecuted under the law – including two former officials of the American-Israel public affairs committee accused of leaking information in 2007 – cases have rarely resulted in convictions.Media organisations are unlikely to be prosecuted under the act, under the constitutional protections for free speech upheld by the supreme court in a number of cases that have limited the application of the Espionage Act.Experts say that in addition to protections for free speech, there are difficulties with proving leaked documents are classified, under a US government executive order which sets limits on documents that can be properly termed as classified documents.However, if charges are made against Julian Assange under the law in the US, then he would face extradition under the controversial UK-US extradition treaty, which provides special measures for extraditions between the two countries.The US embassy cablesUS foreign policyUnited StatesAfua Hirschguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
英国の公式秘密法と同じ年、これとはcommon.Theに多くて - する前に、機密情報をリークしていたインサイダーは起訴されているが、ケースはまれconvictionThe米国スパイ法のような結果がある1911年から交際あまり使われていない法律である現行法は、誰がリーク者を起訴し、国家安全保障上のリスクを作成する機密情報を公開することができます
- Gun attack on Mexican newspaper
Attackers armed with assault rifles opened fire on the newspaper offices of El Debate in the city of Mazatlán on Sunday. No injuries occurred. The governor of Sinaloa, Jesús Aguilar Padilla, said his administration would do everything possible to protect journalists and guarantee press freedom. Special protection has been arranged.Sources: Knight Centre In Spanish: El JornadaJournalist safetyMexicoPress freedomGreenslade on Latin AmericaRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
突撃銃で武装した攻撃者は、日曜日にマサトランの街でエルディベートの新聞社に火を開いた
- Euthanasia ad banned in Australia
CANBERRA - A controversial pro-euthanasia television ad, which was to air tonight, has been banned.The ad's creator, lobby group Exit International, says the ban is a violation of free speech and they will try with a different... キャンベラは - 禁止は言論の自由の侵害であり、彼らは異なるしようとする今夜空気とした論争のプロ安楽死のテレビ広告、banned.The広告の作成、ロビーグループ終了インターナショナル、しているという...
- Two Iraqi TV journalists shot dead as war toll mounts
Gunmen yesterday murdered an Iraqi TV journalist, the second to be killed in Iraq in as many days. Safah Abdul Hameed was shot dead in front of his home in the northern city of Mosul as he left for work at the al-Mosuliyah satellite TV station.A day earlier, the prominent al-Iraqiya TV presenter Riad al-Saray (aka Riyad Assariyeh) was gunned down outside his home in Baghdad.The deaths coincided with the release of a report by the international press freedom watchdog, Reporters without Borders, that the Iraq war over the past seven years has resulted in the heaviest death toll for the media since the second world war.A pdf of the report, The Iraq War: A Heavy Death Toll for the Media, is available here. Sources: Associated Press/Reporters without Borders/BBCJournalist safetyIraqPress freedomGreenslade on AsiaRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
武装勢力は28日、2番目のイラクのように多くの日に殺されるイラクのテレビジャーナリストを殺害した
- If Pakistan is serious about freedom of speech its blasphemy law must go, says Michael Nazir-Ali
If Pakistan is serious about freedom of speech its blasphemy law must goAsia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of five, is the first woman to have been convicted under Pakistan's notorious blasphemy law. But numerous Christians like her and others have been victims of it, either because they have made a comment which has been construed as critical of the prophet of Islam or as a way of settling property and business disputes. Now she has become the first person to be sentenced to death under it.Did she blaspheme Muhammad? It seems more likely that she angered her tormentors in a theological discussion about the relative merits of Christianity and Islam. Such debates take place all the time among adherents of different faiths. Whichever it may have been, the law has created intolerable injustice for often powerless people and quite unacceptable restrictions on freedom of speech to which the state of Pakistan is committed.In undivided India, the British had laws which were meant to prevent incitement to religious hatred (yes, that is where this approach was first tried). The penalties, however, were generally moderate and proportional to the offences. Increasing Islamisation in Pakistan has made these laws more and more draconian. Thus there is now a mandatory life sentence for desecrating the Qur'an and a mandatory death sentence for blaspheming the prophet.We need to know urgently from our Muslim friends whether these laws are really Islamic. The different formal schools of medieval sharia were unanimous that anyone who insults the prophet is to be put to death and differ only about the method of execution. It is this unanimity which has led the federal shariat court to rule that the death penalty is mandatory and left the judges with little discretion in particular cases.Agai パキスタンは、音声の神への冒とく法の自由を真剣にされている場合がありますgoAsia Bibiさんは、5の45歳の母親、パキスタンの悪名高い神への冒とく法の下で有罪判決を受けた最初の女性です
- Euthanasia TV advertisement banned
THE decision to ban a controversial ad from screening tonight on TV threatens free speech, Dr Philip Nitschke says. テレビで今夜のスクリーニングから論争の広告を禁止する決定は、言論の自由を脅かす、博士フィリップニッチェ医師は言う
- What the Stig? | Afua Hirsch
The BBC's attempted injunction against the Stig was a very bad ideaFirst, thanks to Siobhain Butterworth for doing such a fantastic job on my blog over the summer. I'm back, even if only to find old alliances upside down.The BBC, usually a staunch defender of free speech for obvious reasons, has just hit a serious low. The corporation tried and yesterday failed to obtain an injunction against the Stig – the elusive, helmet-clad racing driver who since 2007 has been a regular feature in its highly lucrative driving show, Top Gear. We all know the true identity of the Stig (if we believe the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail who both reported some time ago that it was racing driver and occasional stunt double Ben Collins).Ironically, to really appreciate why this is one of lowest moments in the BBC's record on press freedom, you just have to turn to one of the Guardian's finest hours. In the 1980s the Guardian and Observer were restrained from publication of allegations made by a former MI6 agent in his infamous Spycatcher memoir. The book was published all over the world but was banned in the UK. Eventually the House of Lords – in a ruling that still serves as a landmark media law – established that the press can be bound by secrecy if it gets hold of confidential information, but not when the information is already available to the general public. And that was way before the internet. The idea of the BBC trying to restrain publication of a book that reveals something now widely disseminated online is quite ridiculous. And there are other reasons why trying to silence the Stig was a massive error of judgment on the part of the corporation. First of all, it undermines its role as a defender of free speech, a deeply unhelpful move at a time when libel and press freedom is u スティグに対するBBCの試み差止命令は非常に悪いideaFirst、Siobhainバターワースのおかげで夏の間私のブログにこのような素晴らしい仕事をしていた
- IFJ condemns arrests of two radio journalists in Somalia
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed concerns over the security and safety of journalists in Somalia following the recent detention of two radio journalists in the Horn of Africa nation.
In a statement received here Thursday, the global press freedom body said Mohamed Salad Abdulle, of Somali Broadcasting Corporation and correspondent of Markabley radio in Kismayo and Mohamed Abdikarim, a correspondent with Hornafrik and Markabley radio station were arrested on Tues ... 国際ジャーナリスト連盟（IFJ）は、アフリカの角国家の2つのラジオジャーナリストの最近の勾留、次のソマリアでは、セキュリティとジャーナリストの安全性に対する懸念を表明している
- Arrests of Chavez critics raises fears over free expression
The arrests of an opposition politician and the owner of a television network for statements critical of the government of President Hugo Chavez have rekindled debate here over free speech and democracy in Venezuela.Chavez supporters deny that the president's critics are being persecuted, but others see the latest developments as a concerted attempt to silence opposition voices. 野党政治家の逮捕とステートメントのチャベス大統領は、政府の重要なのは、テレビネットワークの所有者がここには言論の自由と民主主義をVenezuela.Chavezの支持をめぐる論議が再燃しているが、盧大統領への批判に迫害されている否定するが、他の参照してください協調しようとすると反対の声を沈黙させるなど、最新の開発
- Press freedom: The Singapore grip | Editorial
The country presents itself as a modern liberal democracy yet has an autocratic political cultureSingapore is proud of its place near the top of many international rankings. Its school system is by some measures the world's best. The island state promotes itself as diverse, competitive and cultured – an exciting global hub. But there are two league tables which shame Singapore. The first, compiled by the campaigning group Reporters Without Borders, places the country 136th in the world for press freedom – below Iraq and Zimbabwe. The second is the rate at which Singapore executes convicted criminals: arguably higher, per capita, than any other country in the world.Singapore presents itself as a modern liberal democracy: it has a parliament, elections, courts, a constitutional right to free speech and the consumerist gloss of capitalism. Its citizens are free to become rich and to travel. Many do both. The country has by any measure succeeded since independence. But its autocratic political culture – overseen by the country's founding father and now official minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew – is highly and needlessly restrictive. The media is largely state-owned. Defamation and contempt laws threaten dissent. The latest victim of these is Alan Shadrake, a British-born writer sentenced yesterday to six weeks in prison and a large fine after being found guilty of contempt of court. His book Once a Jolly Hangman questioned the independence of Singapore's legal system, and its use of the death penalty.It is depressing that a country as successful as Singapore should feel the need for such restrictions on free speech. Singapore argues that, without them, the balance between the country's Chinese, Malay and Indian populations would be upset. But the reality is that other successfu 国は現代のリベラルな民主主義がまだ独裁政治cultureSingaporeは、多くの国際ランキングの上部にその場所を誇りに思っているているとしての地位を提示します
- F.C.C. Expletives Policy Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s “fleeting expletives” policy on broadcasts, saying its vagueness could inhibit free speech. 連邦控訴裁判所は、ブロードキャストには、その曖昧さは、言論の自由を阻害する可能性が言って米連邦通信委員会の。。u0026quot;つかの間のexpletives。。u0026quot;政策を打った
- Letters: Azerbaijan protest
Today at 12 noon, free speech campaigners will protest outside the Azerbaijani embassy in London, calling for an end to the persecution of jailed journalist Eynulla Fatullayev. We urge all Guardian readers who believe in free speech to join us.Newspaper editor Fatullayev is serving an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence based on trumped-up charges of terrorism and defamation. In April this year the European court of human rights ruled that he had been wrongfully imprisoned and called for his immediate release.Fatullayev is now on trial on a new accusation of possessing illegal drugs – a charge widely believed to have been fabricated in order to keep him in prison.Freedom of expression is the bedrock of human rights, without which other abuses go unheralded and unchecked. Those of us who can speak out must stand up for those to whom free speech is denied.Kate Allen Director, Amnesty International UK, Agnès Callamard Executive director, Article 19, Lisa Appignanesi President, English PEN, Carole Seymour-Jones Chair, Writers in Prison Committee, English PEN, John Kampfner Index on Censorship, Alan Ayckbourn Playwright, William Boyd Author, Philip Pullman AuthorAzerbaijanProtestFreedom of speechHuman rightsAmnesty Internationalguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
正午12時現在、言論の自由運動は、ロンドンのアゼルバイジャン大使館の外、投獄ジャーナリストEynulla Fatullayevの迫害に終止符を求める抗議します
- Roy Greenslade: Protest today against jailing of Azerbaijan journalist
Note this letter in today's Guardian:Today at 12 noon, free speech campaigners will protest outside the Azerbaijani embassy in London, calling for an end to the persecution of jailed journalist Eynulla Fatullayev. We urge all Guardian readers who believe in free speech to join us.Newspaper editor Fatullayev is serving an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence based on trumped-up charges of terrorism and defamation. In April this year the European court of human rights ruled that he had been wrongfully imprisoned and called for his immediate release.Fatullayev is now on trial on a new accusation of possessing illegal drugs – a charge widely believed to have been fabricated in order to keep him in prison.Freedom of expression is the bedrock of human rights, without which other abuses go unheralded and unchecked. Those of us who can speak out must stand up for those to whom free speech is denied.It is signed by Kate Allen director, Amnesty International UK; Agnès Callamard, executive director, Article 19; Lisa Appignanesi, president, English PEN; Carole Seymour-Jones, chair, Writers in Prison Committee, English PEN; John Kampfner, Index on Censorship; Alan Ayckbourn, William Boyd and Philip Pullman Should you wish to join the protest, you will find the Azerbaijan embassy at 4, Kensington Court, London W8 5DL. The embassy website tells you how to get there by public transport.Press freedomAzerbaijanFreedom of speechLondonRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
今日のガーディアンは、この文字をメモ：今日の正午12時、言論の自由運動は、ロンドンのアゼルバイジャン大使館の外に抗議する、投獄ジャーナリストEynulla Fatullayevの迫害に終止符を求める
- Ecuador police mutiny censorship
Last week's mutiny by police in Ecuador resulted in injuries to more than 20 reporters and the imposition of TV and radio censorship. In the course of a 12-hour crisis hundreds of officers took over police barracks across the country in protest at cuts to their benefits.After declaring a state of emergency, the country's president, Rafael Correa, ordered TV and radio stations to interrupt their programming to carry state news broadcasts. It meant that citizens were unable to receive balanced information from an independent media at a critical time, said Freddy Barros, editor-in-chief with the TV station Ecuavisa.At least 22 reporters and photojournalists were attacked, threatened, or harassed as they covered the police rebellion, according to the Quito-based group press freedom group Fundamedios. Sources: CPJ/RSFJournalist safetyEcuadorPress freedomGreenslade on Latin AmericaRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
エクアドルの警察が先週の暴動は、20以上の記者、テレビやラジオの検閲を課すことへの傷害をもたらした
- Letters: Are the police beyond the law?
I am writing you regarding the disturbing circumstances surrounding the death of Ian Tomlinson (Report, 23 July). If you or I launched an unprovoked attack on a fellow member of the public, in front of numerous witnesses, and the act was captured on film, would we face prosecution? If this does not merit a criminal charge, what exactly would a UK policeman have to do in order to face legal sanction? It seems, in light of these events, impossible to resist the conclusion that the police are above the law.Aside from the fact that an innocent man is dead, and his family will receive no justice, the most depressing facet of this is that this outcome was not surprising. The police will, given the option, always protect their own. Presumably, the almost certain knowledge that he would face no legal sanction, was one reason the officer in question felt free to administer an unprovoked, vicious and cowardly beating to Mr Tomlinson.I do not fear crime or terrorists; they do not impinge upon my daily life. However, I now hesitate to express my freedom of speech by attending political demonstrations, for fear of the violence and intimidation of the police. Is this paranoid? We now know that the police are free to strike innocent members of the public (whether engaging in protests or simply walking home as Tomlinson was) without sanction; worse, the police know this too.How can politicians ask us to engage in politics, when political demonstrations are met with extreme violence, and the police are beyond the law?Dr Anders IngramEdinburgh• The failure to prosecute the officer who struck Ian Tomlinson is bad for everyone. The family are denied justice, the officer himself will become a pariah, the public will have their view that the police are above the law confirmed and the Metropo 私は不穏な状況イアントムリンソン（報告の死を取り巻くに関することを書いている7月23日）
- Sounds Jewish: May 2010
An almighty row has broken out at Leeds University, where the Leeds student newspaper has been accused of antisemitism for an interview it published with a leading Palestinian journalist. In a special report for Sounds Jewish, Henrietta Foster visits the Leeds campus and speaks to the students caught up in the dispute.The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland and the founder of Muslims4UK, Inayat Bunglawala, join Jason in the studio to discuss whether free speech is rapidly turning into hate speech on British campuses.Also in this month's show: what's the true meaning of one of the most expressive Yiddish words, broigus? Is it just a slight grudge – or a bitter hatred that can split a family for generations? And why is it that occasions that should be a source of joy – weddings, birthday parties, bar mitzvahs – often end up causing a broigus? We'll hear some real-life stories of family rows that started small and went nuclear.Finally Jason is joined by two special guests – Ronna and Beverly – two motormouth yentas from America, pushy, noisy, adorable Jewish ladies of a certain age – as they serve up their unique brand of advice on life, sex and Streisand in London's West End and at the Edinburgh Festival later this year.Sounds Jewish is produced with the Jewish Community Centre for LondonPost your comments on the blog below or find us on Facebook and TwitterJason Solomons
全能の行はリーズ大学、リーズの学生新聞は、反ユダヤ主義のインタビューのためには、主要なパレスチナのジャーナリストで公開されて非難されているで壊れている
- Sri Lanka, no Indian Ocean paradise | Robert Mahoney
The country is trying to lure back tourists after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, but its poor human rights record hasn't improvedBritons are again flocking to Sri Lanka. Tourist arrivals surged 47% last month from a year earlier and sun-seekers from the UK form the largest single group. That's an astounding turnaround for a country that for more than a quarter of a century had been a case study in ethnic warfare, terrorism and brutal repression.This week the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, buoyed by recent wins in presidential and parliamentary elections, marks the first anniversary of its military victory over the separatist Tamil Tigers.In the past few months Sri Lanka has been trying to burnish its image as an Indian Ocean paradise. And with some success. In January, the influential travel section of The New York Times slapped a picture of Colombo's colonial-era Galle Face hotel on its front page and put Sri Lanka at the top of its 31 Places To Go in 2010 list.And a western tourist sipping palm wine on a white sand beach or Ceylon tea in a plantation hill station might agree. The weather's balmy, the people smile, and the price is oh-so right.What visitors might not notice is that broad swaths of the mainly Tamil north and east of the country are still effectively closed military zones, and tens of thousands of Tamil civilians displaced by last year's army onslaught are still held in camps. Visitors would have a hard time finding independent reporting on these stories in the Sri Lankan media. But not to worry. So would Sri Lankans.Peace may be bringing a dividend for tourism and other business, but not for free speech. The Tamil press has long been intimidated and is extremely wary of being the first to break news critical of the government or the militar 国はタミールタイガースの敗北後、観光客を呼び戻す誘導するが、としているの劣悪な人権記録は再びスリランカに群がっているimprovedBritonsを持っていません
- Furore over apartheid-era song ban
JOHANNESBURG - A song that advocates the killing of white farmers has ignited debate about race and free speech and raised questions about the sticking power of efforts toward achieving racial reconciliation.After Johannesburg's... ヨハネスブルクは - 白人農民の殺害を主張曲のレースと言論の自由についての議論に火をつけており、達成に向けての努力の付着力について疑問を人種reconciliation.Afterヨハネスブルグの...
- The Media Equation: Google’s Not Creating Content, Just Protecting It
When Google said it would leave mainland China, it struck a blow for free speech — and set a high standard for itself. ときにGoogleは、中国本土のままになると言うが、言論の自由のための一撃 - と自身のために高い基準を設定します
- When American and European Ideas of Privacy Collide
An Italian ruling against Google highlights the clash between Europe’s love of privacy and America’s of free speech.
Googleに対抗イタリア。与党プライバシーのヨーロッパの愛との間の衝突を強調アメリカの言論の自由
- Web-freedom call refuted
Chinese experts say a recent aggressive stance by the US over the Google dispute was part of an orchestrated plan with covert political intentions.
The latest wrangling comes after Google's claim that it was hit with cyber attacks originating in China. US trade authorities are reportedly seeking to further heighten pressure on China's censorship policy by invoking WTO treaties.
A US-based free-speech group, the First Amendment Coalition, has petitioned US Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk ... 中国の専門家は、Google紛争をめぐる米国の最近の積極的な姿勢を秘密の政治的な意図を持った編成計画の一部だったと言う
- Do you have a question about your rights? | Liberty Clinic
Your chance to ask about your civil liberties and human rights – post queries here to be answered by Liberty's lawyersIn this week's Liberty Clinic, Emma Norton answers EqualityMatters' query about their entitlement to British citizenship. This relates, in part, to a similar issue addressed in last week's Liberty Clinic, which those interested in this topic might like to read as well: Why can't I claim British citizenship?For those of you who haven't visited the Liberty Clinic before, each week we invite readers to post their civil liberties and human rights queries. Maybe you have a question about free speech? Or the role and reach of judgments by law lords?Whatever they may be, share your queries in the comments thread below, keeping your posts as succinct as possible. And don't forget to check next week's Liberty Clinic to see whether your question has been answered.LawCriminal justiceHuman rightsCivil libertiesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
あなたのチャンスをあなたの市民の自由と人権について尋ねるために-ポストここで、リバティのlawyersIn今週のリバティクリニックで答えることに、エマノートン英国の市民への権利についてEqualityMatters。。u0026#39;クエリーに回答を照会します
- Roy Greenslade: Remembering Lasantha Wickramatunga
The Frontline Club is hosting a memorial to mark the first anniversary of the murder of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga (also spelt Wickrematunga). He was shot while he was on his way to work on 8 January last year in an attack by four gunmen.His killing caused an international outcry, not least because he anticipated the likelihood of his own death in an editorial in the newspaper he edited, The Sunday Leader. It was published three days after he died. In blaming the Sri Lankan government for abuses of human rights, he wrote: Murder has become the primary tool whereby the state seeks to control the organs of liberty... Countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed. It has been my honour to belong to all those categories and now especially the last.The Frontline Club's memorial starts at 7pm on Thursday. Taking part will be former Financial Times journalist Edward Mortimer, chair of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice and Roma Tearne, the Sri Lankan-born author of Brixton Beach, the novel that deals with the horror of her country's civil war. There will also be a video contribution by Sonali Samarasinghe, Wickramatunga's wife, journalist and human rights campaigner.It is sobering to reflect that no suspect has ever been arrested for Wickramatunga's death. Moreover, Sri Lanka is now rated by the international press watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, as one of the worst countries in terms of press freedom.In September last year, Dileesha Abeysundera, a journalist working for the Sinhalese-language weekly Irudina, was the target of a kidnapping attempt.To get some idea of the current situation, see this video clip of Sunanda Deshapriya talking about the lack of press freedom in Sri Lanka.Sources: Frontline Club/Reporters Without 送信者The FrontlineクラブスリランカのジャーナリストLasantha Wickramatungaの殺人事件の最初の周年を記念）（また、スペルト小麦Wickrematunga記念開催中です
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