Hollman Morris, Colombian Journalist, Says Patriot Act…
A Colombian journalist who was recently denied a visa to study under Harvard University's Nieman Fellowship program says the State Department's decision may put his life under further threat.… More
Free Speech Groups Ask Sec. Clinton to Review Exclusion of Colombian Journalist
The American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Professors and PEN American Center today sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing alarm over reports that… More
Reader Privacy Advocates Cheer New Investigation
Inspector General Glenn Fine announced his investigation this week in a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In March, Leahy asked Attorney General… More
Increased Patriot Act Oversight Is Welcome News for Reader Privacy Advocates
The Campaign for Reader Privacy, which has been fighting to restore privacy safeguards for library and bookstore records that were stripped away by the Patriot Act, warmly welcomed an… More
Iran’s Media Crackdown Intensifies
(May 11) - Hard-line Iranian officials often speak with admiration about the "China model" of economic development and political control. Iran has clearly failed to equal China in terms… More
An Evening with Tariq Ramadan
Cooper Union, the East Village hall where Abraham Lincoln demolished Stephen Douglas’s states-rights argument for the extension of slavery a hundred and fifty years ago, was the setting last… More
At Last Allowed, Muslim Scholar Visits
A federal appeals court had ruled in his favor. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had issued an order that paved the way for a visa. And so, on… More
Writers Press Iran to Release Jailed Colleagues
A coalition of free expression organizations delivered a petition to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations calling on the Iranian government to release dozens… More
Tariq Ramadan To Speak in New York
In 2004, Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss professor of Islamic studies, lost a tenured position at Notre Dame after the Bush administration revoked his visa under the Patriot Act, following… More
Muslim Scholar, Formerly Barred, Coming to New York
A prominent Muslim academic barred from the United States for six years under the Patriot Act will speak at a panel at Cooper Union next month, his first public… More
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