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October Featured Case: Dareen Tatour
Tatour was charged with incitement to violence and support of terrorism, stemming primarily from a reading of her poem “Resist, My People, Resist Them” posted on YouTube… More
Arrest of Concertgoers an Unjustifiable Attack on Free Expression in Egypt
Egypt’s arrest of seven concertgoers for “promoting sexual deviancy”—for acts such as waving rainbow flags—is an unjustifiable attack on free expression. More
DARE: Twitter finds hundreds of accounts tied to Russian operatives
Twitter presents to closed-door meetings of Senate and House intelligence committees in widening probe into how Russian operatives used social media and other digital platforms to spread disinformation and… More
DARE: Presidential tweet accuses Facebook of being “anti-Trump”
Presidential tweet accuses Facebook of being "anti-Trump"; social network counters that it is pro-truth and pro-democracy, citing a broad series of measures it took to during this week's German… More
Sentence of Journalist Mykola Semena Part of Campaign to Silence Dissent in Crimea
The show trial of journalist Mykola Semena on charges of separatism is an aberration of the norms of justice squarely aimed at silencing journalism in Crimea. More
DARE: Sessions criticizes U.S. universities for their free-speech policies
Attorney General Jeff Sessions goes to Georgetown University to exercise his free-speech rights to attack American higher education institutions for what he sees as impingement on those rights... More
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Free Speech on College Campuses
We take issue with Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his cursory acknowledgment of serious concerns that have arisen on campus with respect to incidents of hate speech and hate crimes. More
Citing Threats of Violence, Guggenheim Removes Works from Upcoming Exhibition
NEW YORK—In response to the Guggenheim's decision to remove works from an upcoming exhibition, citing threats of violence, PEN America Executive Director Suzanne Nossel released the following statement: "While vigorous… More
DARE: Guggenheim, Bowing to Animal-Rights Activists, Pulls Works From Show
Guggenheim pulls three controversial works for from exhibition, citing threats from animal rights activists. Protests planned for speech by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the topic of free speech... More
Wajahat Ali Interviews Timothy Snyder for Read the Resistance, August 2017
If things don’t go well, there are going to be considerable risks later…while the risks are limited, people have to get out and practice being a little courageous. More
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