Muslim cartoon protestors burn Danish, Norwegian embassies in Syria
Muslim Syrians set fire to both the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus Saturday, protesting the European publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad and caricaturing him as a terrorist. Protestors first stormed the Danish embassy chanting "God is...
Russian court convicts head of US-supported NGO for inciting hatred
A Russian court has convicted Stanislav M. Dmitriyevsky , director of the US-supported Russian-Chechen Friendship Society , of inciting religious and ethnic hatred by publishing editorial commentaries by two Chechen separatist leaders in 2004. The...
Address by Denmark Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to Muslim ambassadors. February 3, 2006 . Excerpt:We are faced with a problem, which can grow to a...
Free speech clash over Muhammad cartoons flares into violence
Tension over the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad flared into violence in Europe and across the Muslim world Thursday and Friday with members of the Front for Defenders of Islam (FPI) storming the...
EU Justice Commissioner and European Commission Vice-President Franco Frattini intervened in the growing Islamic cartoons controversy Thursday, calling newspaper publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad "somewhat imprudent," while acknowledging that freedom of expression was a "'founding...
International brief ~ 500 arrested in Nepal 'Black Day' protests against royal takeover
Leading Thursday's international brief, more than 500 people have been arrested in Nepal for protesting the autocratic rule of King Gyanendra on Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the 'Black Day' last February 1 when Gyanendra dismissed...
UK Commons approves amendments narrowing scope of religious hate bill
Members of the UK House of Commons Tuesday narrowly backed amendments to the government's controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill approved by the UK House of Lords last...
British politicians, writers and comedians are urging members of the UK House of Commons to accept freedom of speech revisions in the controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill , which returns to the Commons for...
JURIST Guest Columnist David Kairys of Temple University School of Law says that senators weighing the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court should be wary of endorsing his commitment to legal technicalities over core constitutional values......
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke says that as the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill proceeds through Parliament we should bear in mind that citizens of democracies expect not only the protection of individual rights, but...
