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Icelandic journalists’ union stands up for charged colleague


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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US judge to investigate Wikileaks Twitter privacy case


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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Muslim rape commentator acquitted of racism charges


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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Wikileaks donations going well despite Visa, Mastercard shutdown


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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Case dropped against soldier author


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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TV4 bans Sweden Democrats’ burka chase ad


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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The prison of expression?


JAGLAND_01An 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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Danish Free Press Society president Muslim slander uproar


arabicMorally 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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Danish school bans pupils from speaking foreign languages


speech-or-languageA 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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