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Conservative website wonders why Trump administration won’t say that federal employees “must” support Trump
The Washington Examiner has worked itself into a state over a Department of Veterans Affairs employee who expressed her personal beliefs on her Twitter and also… included the two books… Read more »
The case of Svetlana Alexievich’s Russian PEN membership
Five days after Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich announced her resignation from the Russian PEN Center over its expulsion of journalist and activist Sergey Parkhomenko, the organization released a statement denying… Read more »
“To the preservation of that species of government, to liberty and to property”
“This, then, is the appropriate region of human liberty. It comprises, first, the inward domain of consciousness; demanding liberty of conscience, in the most comprehensive sense; liberty of thought and… Read more »
Cairo bookstore offers a private space for screaming away fear and anger
A while back, MobyLives wrote about a new Cairo bookstore that aimed to do more than just sell books, but become a creative and social hub where freedom of expression… Read more »
Egyptian TV host goes on air to defend murder of Jordanian writer
The report on Tuesday that an Egyptian TV host publicly supported the murder of Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar is only the latest in an ongoing story about extremism and limits to free speech… Read more »
Vietnamese songwriters jailed
There were more freedom-of-speech violations this week in Vietnam. On Tuesday two songwriters were sent to prison for a combined total of ten years for writing songs critical of the… Read more »