Censorship Roundtable Discussion

Next Tuesday, October 24th at 17.00, the University of Aberdeen Legal Research Society will hold its first roundtable discussion on the topic of freedom of expression and censorship. The meeting will take place in Taylor Building room A15.

The discussion will examine the tension between censorship and freedom of expression in the context of the recent Jyllands-Posten Muhammad editorial cartoon controversy. For those who want to look at the cartoons, this website has posted all of them, with English translations. This is an image of the page layout as they originally appeared in the Ryllands-Posten. We have decided not to show the cartoons at the meeting, out of respect to our muslim colleagues. Here are two very different opinions of the controversy:

Here are a number of other links meant to spark intellectual debate. If there are other materials which you think might foster an informed debate, please post them in the comment section below. The Legal Research Society looks forward to an intelligent and informed debate about this issue. Please come along for a respectful and informed discussion.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Here are links to Globalawandpolitics blog opinions on cartoon controversy.

http://globalawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/02/freedom-of-expression-case-of-abuse.html

http://globalawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/03/blues-for-allah.html

http://globalawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/03/freedom-of-speech-as-trump-card.html

Jernej
You can find an interesting article that cites a multitude of sources here: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2418

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