Monday, January 02, 2006

Free speech in Europe: it's all or nothing

The trial of Orhan Pamuk for 'publicly denigrating Turkish identity' is a disgrace. So is Austria's imprisonment of David Irving for Holocaust denial.

by Brendan O'Neill

Two European writers have recently fallen foul of European governments for expressing their views about genocide. Both are threatened with trial and imprisonment for something they said or wrote. Yet one is supported by EU politicians and the international literati - who have rallied around to defend him from censorship and to champion the right of writers to speak freely - while the other has been ignored, or even told that he got what he deserved

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