Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-963-386-057-1 (ebook); 978-963-386-056-4 (hbk)
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freedom of the press emerged, or at least powerful efforts were made to support its emergence, although disheartening backlashes followed in several countries. This book also tells many other free speech narratives that emerged, or evolved outside the frames of 1989 and 2011, also with several troublesome repercussions. The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the year of largely velvet revolutions (in the words of Vaclav Havel), brought freedom of speech to Central Europe and Eastern Europe. It also increased the hope that freedom of speech and democracy can prevail in more and more countries on the earth. This book examines, in some historic perspective, to what extent this hope has become reality since and prior to 1989, also in light of the Arab revolutions of 2011." (Introduction, page 1)
Introduction / Peter Molnar, 1
I. OVERVIEWS
1989, 2011, and strategic narratives / Monroe Price, 7
Four Dangers for freedom of expression and the internet: an interview with Frank La Rue, 23
Freedom of speech in the OSCE countries: an interview with Dunja Mijatovic, 37
Revisiting the three Europes: diverging landscapes of media freedom / Miklós Haraszti, 45
Freedom of expression, media and journalism under the European human rights system: characteristics, developments, and challenges / Dirk Voorhoof, 59
Jurisprudential advances and persistent challenges for freedom of expression in the Americas / Catalina Botero Marino, 105
The right to information in Latin America / Toby Mendel, 137
Freedom of speech and access to information in Africa: an interview with Pansy Tlakula, 159
A right emerges: the history of the right of access to information and its link with freedom of expression / Helen Darbishire, 167
The right to information and the expanding scope of bodies covered by national laws since 1989 / Sandra Coliver, 187
The Rabat plan of action: a critical turning point in international law on hate speech / Sejal Parmar, 211
Free to hate? Anti-Gypsyism in 21st-century Europe / Bernard Rorke, 233
II. COUNTRIES
The role of the mass media in the Spanish transition to democracy and its subsequent consolidation / Josep Maria Carbonell and Joan Barata Mir, 255
Russia's Supreme Court as media freedom protector / Andrei Richter, 273
Access to information in Kenya: the law and practice since 1991 / Ezra Chiloba, 299
Freedom of expression in ferment: a cursory look at the Ethiopian media regime / Yared Legesse Mengistu, 317
Philippines: expanding the contours of free speech in an environment of impunity against journalists / Gilbert T. Andres, 337
The fragile complexity of protecting freedom of speech in Australia / Rhonda Breit, 359
The impact of new media on freedom of expression in China and the regulatory responses / Mei Ning Yan, 381
Eavesdropping on the freedom of expression in India / Sunil Abraham, 409
The "Turkish model" of freedom of speech / Zeynep Alemdar, 429
Forging ahead: a contemporary review of Egyptian press and media laws / Brenda F. Abdelall, 445
Media, freedom of expression and democratization in Morocco / Abderrahim Chalfaouat, 465
The Danish cartoons controversy: hate speech laws and unintended consequences / Richard N. Winfield and Janine Tien, 481
The UN defamation of religions resolution and domestic blasphemy laws in Pakistan: creating a culture of impunity / Asma T. Uddin, 495
A right to be free from religious hatred? The Wilders case in the Netherlands and beyond / Jeroen Temperman, 509
I. OVERVIEWS
1989, 2011, and strategic narratives / Monroe Price, 7
Four Dangers for freedom of expression and the internet: an interview with Frank La Rue, 23
Freedom of speech in the OSCE countries: an interview with Dunja Mijatovic, 37
Revisiting the three Europes: diverging landscapes of media freedom / Miklós Haraszti, 45
Freedom of expression, media and journalism under the European human rights system: characteristics, developments, and challenges / Dirk Voorhoof, 59
Jurisprudential advances and persistent challenges for freedom of expression in the Americas / Catalina Botero Marino, 105
The right to information in Latin America / Toby Mendel, 137
Freedom of speech and access to information in Africa: an interview with Pansy Tlakula, 159
A right emerges: the history of the right of access to information and its link with freedom of expression / Helen Darbishire, 167
The right to information and the expanding scope of bodies covered by national laws since 1989 / Sandra Coliver, 187
The Rabat plan of action: a critical turning point in international law on hate speech / Sejal Parmar, 211
Free to hate? Anti-Gypsyism in 21st-century Europe / Bernard Rorke, 233
II. COUNTRIES
The role of the mass media in the Spanish transition to democracy and its subsequent consolidation / Josep Maria Carbonell and Joan Barata Mir, 255
Russia's Supreme Court as media freedom protector / Andrei Richter, 273
Access to information in Kenya: the law and practice since 1991 / Ezra Chiloba, 299
Freedom of expression in ferment: a cursory look at the Ethiopian media regime / Yared Legesse Mengistu, 317
Philippines: expanding the contours of free speech in an environment of impunity against journalists / Gilbert T. Andres, 337
The fragile complexity of protecting freedom of speech in Australia / Rhonda Breit, 359
The impact of new media on freedom of expression in China and the regulatory responses / Mei Ning Yan, 381
Eavesdropping on the freedom of expression in India / Sunil Abraham, 409
The "Turkish model" of freedom of speech / Zeynep Alemdar, 429
Forging ahead: a contemporary review of Egyptian press and media laws / Brenda F. Abdelall, 445
Media, freedom of expression and democratization in Morocco / Abderrahim Chalfaouat, 465
The Danish cartoons controversy: hate speech laws and unintended consequences / Richard N. Winfield and Janine Tien, 481
The UN defamation of religions resolution and domestic blasphemy laws in Pakistan: creating a culture of impunity / Asma T. Uddin, 495
A right to be free from religious hatred? The Wilders case in the Netherlands and beyond / Jeroen Temperman, 509
