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...head, people have found a reassuring port in the storm: their belief in the political miracle of free speech. In Western democracies, the right to express an idea, no matter how offensive, always trumps the impulse of the offended to censor. No government should be able to jail a cartoonist or newspaper editor for what they publish, or block the distribution of provocative material in advance. That's what Europeans believe, and their laws allow. Right? Well, actually, no. In general, European law favors the right to say and publish unpopular, even hateful things. But not in every case...
...many friends. Those still left, like Belarus, or those now coming back after a long estrangement, like Uzbekistan, are ones who share Putin's views on how to deal with terror closer to home. Yesterday, the Uzbek authorities officially confirmed that a month ago they clamped a seven-year jail sentence on the lawyer and human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. His official crimes were conspiring with terrorists and defaming the state. But Human Rights Watch and others believe that his real offense was telling the world - including in an interview with Time - the truth about the mass slaughter of hundreds...
...same time the Administration was chest-thumping about this victory in the war on terror, Townsend had to acknowledge that it is grappling with one of the worst examples of non-cooperation. Over the weekend, 13 convicted Al Qaeda members being held in a Yemeni jail escaped, including the reputed mastermind of the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Townsend acknowledged that the jailbreak is "of enormous concern to us, especially given the capabilities and the expertise of the people who were there." All 13 had been housed together, she said, and "we are disappointed that their restrictions...
...hungry cries of infants who had not seen the sun for weeks. While some of their mothers would be released in several days after paying fines for loitering, others awaited a seven-year sentence for crimes like having attempted an abortion. Their infants would join them in jail and grow up as prisoners...
This fear was the topic of my thesis—propaganda and repressed youth culture. In jail, we tried to avoid political communication only to discover that everything is political: the fact that fuel is so expensive or that they like MTV more than ZTV (Zimbabwe Television). But we all joked about the difficulty of life in the cell and shared, through whispers, the telling stories that brought us there...