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A lawsuit, alleging censorship of inmate mail by the Upshur County Jail, has been settled in the plaintiffs favor.

Prison Legal News settled the lawsuit for $175,000.

Named as defendants in the suit, which was filed in October, 2012, were the county, Sheriff Anthony Betterton and Sheriffs Lt. Jill McCauley.

The suit stated that Upshur County Jails inmate handbook contained no written criteria explaining when a publication will be rejected, and the jails mail policy did not provide a sender any notice or explanation when a book is censored, stated a story in the February, 2014, edition of Prison Legal News (PLN), reporting the settlement.

The story stated that PLN had mailed copies of its monthly magazine to prisoners at the Upshur County Jail, as well as letters, renewal notices, brochures and copies of a book, Protecting Your Health and Safety.

The article said that the jail rejected about 90 of PLNs publications over a one-year period, stamping them No Newspaper, Unauthorized Mail, Not Approved, or Refused.

The article said the jail also rejected legal mail sent to prisoners by PLNs attorney. No notice was provided regarding this censorship, and PLN was not afforded an opportunity to appeal the rejection of its publications.

Lance Weber, general counsel for the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the nonprofit parent of PLN was quoted in the article as saying The purpose of jail is to hold the criminally accused for trial, not to punish them. Depriving pretrial detainees too poor to afford bail, who are presumed innocentof access to information that could assist them in enforcing their rights is inexcusable.

The article reported that on Sept. 30, 2013, a federal district court granted PLNs motion for a preliminary injunction, finding that the withholding of at least some of the correspondence with prisoners deprived the plaintiff, PLN, of its First Amendment rights without due process of law.

While the jail had adopted a new mail policy before the granting of the preliminary injunction, and the court said that was a clear improvement, but that it still falls short of establishing the minimum procedural safeguards constitutionally required to protect PLNs First and Fourteenth Amendment rights without due process of law.

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ByGolnaz Esfandiari, RFE/R

The Polish foreign minister was in Iran to explore business opportunities in the country.

WASHINGTON -- Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski expressed shock after seeing Iranian media censorship at work during his recent trip to Tehran, and bewilderment after discovering his critical message was not aired on Iranian television.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on March 1, Sikorski publicly put his counterpart on the spot.

"I would also like to add that I mentioned to the minister that yesterday from Isfahan I tried to log onto a website of a major Polish newspaper and, unfortunately, I could not do it. I was told that the website was blocked by censorship. For us, coming from a country that fought for freedom of speech, this came as a shock,"Sikorski said.

The Polish foreign minister went on to say that he also stressed to Zarif the need for human-rights dialogue, and underscored that the world has taken note of the recent rise in executions in the Islamic republic.

Avideolater released by the Polish Foreign Ministry puts Sikorski's comments on the record for all to see, but Iran's tightly controlled media left his criticisms on the cutting floor.

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Venezuelan Communication Minister decries censorship on CNN
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Hong Kong actor/director Jackie Chan and leading mainland Chinese director Feng Xiaogang made passionate pleas for less censorship of their films in China at a high-level Communist Party meeting in Beijing.

Chinas annual rubber-stamp legislature, the National Peoples Congress, is taking place in the Chinese capital right now, and the two men are among a number of top industry figures on an advisory body to the parliament, called the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conferences (CPPCC).

Chan, whose action thriller Police Story 2013 recently topped the box office charts in China, is a Hong Kong delegate at the event, and he was unusually forthright in criticizing censorship.

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I know theres a risk to saying this, but I dont care now, because it seems normal that I speak inappropriately. If a movie is heavily censored, cutting all the sharp edges and corners, its box-office performance will suffer drastically, Chan said as quoted by the South China Morning Post.

The comments are a little surprising coming from Chan as he generally tends to toe the party line on cultural matters, and he has angered people in Hong Kong by saying that they complain too much about China and talk too much about getting more democracy.

Chan said that censorship had disastrous results for its investors and producers.

I have a couple of director friends [who went] bankrupt because of poor box-office results," he said. "Last year, China box office earnings reached 21.7 billion yuan ($3.6 billion), of which 17.1 billion ($2.8 billion) was from domestic movies. Within five to six years, China will be the biggest market. However, if Chinese films dont take marketization seriously, it will hardly have the chance to surpass Hollywood."

He was speaking after his friend and colleague Feng, who directed movies like the recent box office success, Personal Tailor, as well as Cellphone and Assembly, and who last November immortalized his hands and feet in cement at TCL Chinese Theatre, called for more clarity in how censorship was applied.

Dont make directors tremble with fear every day like [theyre] walking on thin ice, Feng told a gathering on the fringes of the CPPCC in the Beijing International Hotel.

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