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RE: Naked Truth - Censorship
Response to the Naked Truth on 18 February 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U46RdCaQKA4.

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Censorship On YouTube: A Message for the Anti-Vaccine Movement
Thinking I was getting some information out to people and seeing other people reply but little did I know that my replies and comments can only be seen by me...

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Censorship and Freedom of Expression in the Arts
In this episode we shall be exploring whether it #39;s the restrictions of freedom that ignite the creative process, as well as the various contradictions and myths surrounding censorship and the...

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Massive Pro-Communist Internet Censorship
Episode #7: American Communist Theocracy-Treason, Sedition and Subversion, Mini-Documentary concerning Communism in America. Title of Episode #7 is Massive Pro-Communist Internet ...

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Shappi Khorsandi: Censorship was a huge thing in my family. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Murdo Macleod

Comedian Shappi Khorsandi is to host Index on Censorships freedom of expression awards on 18 March.

It is an apt choice because her father, the Iranian writer and satirist Hadi Khorsandi, fled to Britain in 1979 with his family, including six-year-old Shappi, after criticising the regime that emerged in the wake of Irans Islamic revolution.

Even in the UK, Khorsandi continued to receive death threats. During the 1979 revolution against the Shah, there were crowds calling for my fathers execution because of his satirical writings, says Shappi.

The only way to stay in Iran was to toe the party line. He chose exile, a profound experience for a writer.

They have to leave their home country to be able to express themselves freely in their native language. Censorship was a huge thing in my family.

Once in Britain, Hadi Khorsandi continued writing and also published a satirical newspaper: Because of this there was a plot to assassinate him in 1984, says his daughter.

There were always Index on Censorship logos in our house because of my fathers work. Its quite an honour to have been asked to host the awards, one I accepted on my fathers behalf.

Many of those shortlisted for Indexs latest freedom of expression awards have experienced similar attempts to silence them. Lirio Abbate, an Italian journalist who faces constant threat of attack because of his investigations into the mafia, has 24-hour police protection.

Others, like Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais, Moroccan rapper El Haqed and Ecuadorian cartoonist Bonil are repeatedly threatened with jail for challenging government and business interests.

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The author has posted comments on this articlePriyanka Kachhava, TNN | Feb 19, 2015, 03.23PM IST

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This kind of censorship and more will be discussed at an upcoming conference in the city. With the theme "Damn the Book, Gag the Voice: Literature and Censorship", the 14th international conference of MELOW, the society for the study of the multi-ethnic literatures of the world will be held in the city from February 20 to 22. The academic gathering will see around 150 delegates from all over the country and abroad gather at Hotel Parkview.

The uneasy relationship between literature and censorship has always been the subject of animated discussion between writers, critics, scholars, those who wield authority and those who suffer it. Underlying the banning and censorship of literature there is the undeniable logic of hate and fear, the politics of power, xenophobia, insecurity or simply the desire to dominate. Although the so-called civilized nations claim to uphold the freedom of expression, they invariably clamp down when sensitive issues are given a public voice. Censorship operates in different guises, some obvious others subtle, some socially or politically or even emotionally motivated. MELOW 2015 will explore the various issues connected with literature and censorship.

There will be approximately 80 paper-presentations spread over sessions, over a span of three days.

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Academics to debate literary censorship from Feb 20-22