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Last week, the U.S. Treasury and State Departments announced the designation of two additional Iranian officials as being responsible for or complicit in serious human rights abuses in Iran since June 2009.  The designation results in freezing assets of the officials, barring transactions with them by U.S. persons and the imposition of visa sanctions.  The [...]

What’s your story? What makes you pro-choice?  Why is it so vital to you that you can make your own choices about your body? Here on the Abortion Gang blog we have spent nearly a year discussing why we are pro choice, why anti abortion legislation hurts women, and how you can support women’s right [...]

I’m borrowing Rachel Maddow’s words from her Wednesday night broadcast here, but I hope you’ll forgive me. As I watched her broadcast from Lawrence, Kansas, I couldn’t help a swelling of pride at what I saw on the screen. Kansans, like myself, who wanted every woman to have access to their full reproductive rights (among [...]

According to WSLS-TV News, the ACLU of Virginia is supporting the right of Floyd County, Virginia high school students to post their personal views– including copies of the Ten Commandments– on their own school locker doors. Apparently Floyd County High School administrators removed copies of the Ten Commandments from lockers of members of the Fellowship [...]

February 24th, AD2011 Nooobody Expects.. The Canucki Inquisition! “Essentially what they were investigating was something that was public knowledge and then inferred conclusions that these faith statements were stifling the academic atmosphere, without ever conducting an empirical review. They have reached a damaging conclusion that discredits our schools.” ~ Justin Cooper, president of Christian Higher [...]

Libel Reform:Ukrainian businessman’s case against Ukrainian newspaper does not belong in UK court The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

Emily Badger:All about the TV network that few US households can watch The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

An op-ed published on Jurist earlier this month discusses a little-noticed decision handed down last December by Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court which for the first time interpreted the provision in Iraq’s Constitution (Art. 2) prohibiting civil laws from violating “settled rulings” of Islam.  At issue was a provision in Iraq’s Law of Evidence requiring contracts [...]

Brian Cathcart: BBC distoring the market? Nonsense The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

Written by Anas Qtiesh Close friends of Syrian blogger Ahmad Abu al-Khair reported that he was arrested this morning at 5:00 am local time on his way back to Damascus from the coastal city of Banias. Security forces allegedly have also confiscated his personal computers. Currently his whereabouts and the reason behind his arrest are [...]