The chairman of Iceland’s journalists’ union has criticised a Reykjavik District Court ruling against a DV journalist. Read the full story
Posted on 11 July 2011.
The chairman of Iceland’s journalists’ union has criticised a Reykjavik District Court ruling against a DV journalist. Read the full story
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Posted on 15 February 2011.
An American federal judge in the state of Virginia will this week decide whether the US Department of Justice can legally force the website Twitter to hand over private information on Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, and others connected to Wikileaks. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 February 2011.
A Danish journalist who claimed that Muslim girls are raped by their male family members has declared a victory for free speech as he is acquitted of racism charges. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 December 2010.
Olafur V. Sigurvinsson, co-founder of the Swiss-Icelandic web host DataCell, says that donations to Wikileaks have only been increasing over the last few days. Read the full story
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Posted on 30 October 2010.
The Danish military has dropped a case against a soldier who wrote a book which they tried to stop being published. Danish commando Thomas Rathsack was contacted by the Judge Advocate’s office this week and told that the army would no longer be pressing charges. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 September 2010.
The Sweden Democrats have submitted their controversial election film for review by a top legal official after broadcaster TV4 refused to air the advert. The far right group wants Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice to rule on whether the video, which shows a group of women in the burka chasing a pensioner, promotes religious hatred. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 May 2010.
An opinion article to commemorate World Press Freedom Day by Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe and Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 January 2010.
Morally deprived rapists are how Muslims have been described by the president of the Danish Free Press Society, Lars Hedegaard. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 December 2009.
A school in Odense on the Danish island of Funen has prohibited students from speaking in their own languages during break time. Read the full story
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