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Trade groups sue Treasury on Freedom of Speech issues
Two publishing trade organizations, the PEN American Center and Arcade Publishing, have jointly filed suit against the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control in a New York federal… More
Ending Editorial Oversight at the Treasury Department
This week, a group of American publishers filed suit against the Treasury secretary and the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department concerning an issue percolating since… More
Treasury Dept. Being Sued for Curbs on Editing
Treasury Department regulations against editing manuscripts from Cuba, Iran and other countries under American economic sanctions violate the First Amendment of the Constitution and should be overturned, a group… More
Publishers will sue U.S. government
Calling restrictions on publishing contrary to the First Amendment and acts of Congress, a group of publishers' and authors' associations expects to file suit today against the Treasury Department's… More
Suit pits free speech vs. ‘trading with the enemy’
A university is squeamish about publishing a birders' guide to Cuba. Another nixed an encyclopedia of Cuban music. A geology journal spiked a paper by Iranian scientists on methods… More
Salman Rushdie on Terrorism, Intellectual freedom, and the Patriot Act
Salman Rushdie's book Midnight's Children, published in 1981, won the Booker Prize and brought him international fame. But it was his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, that the Indian-British… More
Rushdie mobilizes American writers against Bush
For fifteen years, Salman Rushdie had to hide for having written what some refused to read. These days, he wishes to denounce another form of censorship in his adopted… More
The FBI Shouldn’t Be Reading Over Our Shoulders
We thought we had won. Last month, a majority of the members of the House of Representatives voted to deny funding for FBI searches of bookstore and library records… More
House GOP defends Patriot Act
House Republicans, under strong pressure from the White House, narrowly defeated an effort yesterday to water down the Bush administration's signature law to combat domestic terrorism. More
Fifth biennial conference of Writers in Prison Committee
"Many of us have been asking, is this what we went to jail for? What has all our struggle come to? A mere clearing of the path for another… More