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Dec 10, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Paul Coleman
From Barbados to Australia, governments, NGOS and corporations are bulldozing free speech.
Share Topics Free Speech World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Across the world, censorship is on the march.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
plough.com | Paul Coleman |Elyssa Koren
Just before dawn on August 19, 2022, police surrounded the home of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, the Catholic prelate of Matagalpa, a city in central Nicaragua. Without obtaining a warrant, they arrested the bishop and seven other members of the Catholic Church. For the fifteen days before his arrest, he had been confined to his house and unable to leave, even to celebrate Mass in the cathedral just down the road. The charges that the government brought against the bishop were serious.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Paul Coleman |Fraser Myers
Elites all across the West are waging all-out war on free speech.
Share Topics Free Speech World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. A Rubicon was crossed last month when X was banned in Brazil. What happened is truly egregious.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
freeread.causeaction.com | Paul Coleman
We support our Publishers and Content Creators. You can view this story on their website by CLICKING HERE. The effort to shut down a mainstream conservative conference in Brussels last week shows partisan censorship is a serious and mounting problem in the West. Although the attempted cancellation failed—thanks to a legal challenge supported by ADF International, the faith-based legal advocacy organization I lead—it is part of a broader, deeply concerning trend.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Paul Coleman
When I was first scheduled to speak at this year’s National Conservatism conference (NatCon) in Brussels, I expected it to be a routine speaking engagement. After all, it is a mainstream conservative gathering that has hosted an event in Brussels before, as well as similar conferences in London, Washington DC, Rome, and Miami.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Paul Coleman
Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Nearly 10 years ago, 276 girls were kidnapped by Islamist terror group Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria. The girls were mostly Christians, a minority in the overwhelmingly Muslim north. Boko Haram targeted the girls both for their religion and for having the audacity to be young women seeking an education. The kidnappings sparked the #BringBackOurGirls social-media campaign, which became a worldwide phenomenon.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Paul Coleman
Share Topics Free Speech Identity Politics World In 2019, a Finnish politician was arrested under the ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’ section of Finland’s criminal code. What did she do to deserve this fate? Did she endorse ethnic cleansing or incite mass atrocities? Not quite. Päivi Räsänen, former interior minister and currently serving MP, had in fact tweeted a Bible verse.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Paul Coleman |Tom Slater
In the early 1900s, Mexico was torn apart by one of the bloodiest religious persecutions of the 20th century. In the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution, the new government sought to implement a secular state and eradicate the influence of the Catholic Church. We tend to think that such totalitarian impulses are a thing of the past. However, present-day Mexico is experiencing some worryingly similar trends. Rodrigo Iván Cortés is a former Mexican congressman and civil-society leader.
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May 16, 2023 | 
paperity.org | Gary Aston-Jones |Paul Coleman |Luis de Lecea |Pascal Bonaventure
IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE, Apr 2023 Gary Aston-Jones, Pascal Bonaventure, Paul Coleman, Luis de Lecea, Debbie Hartman, Daniel Hoyer, Laura Jacobson, Thomas Kilduff, Jyrki P. Kukkonen, Terrence P. McDonald, Rod Porter, John Renger, Takeshi Sakurai, Jerome M Siegel, Gregor Sutcliffe, Neil Upton, Christopher J. Winrow, Masashi Yanagisawa. , IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE, 2023, Volume 2023, Issue 1,
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Apr 6, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Paul Coleman |Tom Slater
Topics Free Speech Identity Politics Politics World On think-tank Freedom House’s ‘world freedom index’, happy Finns top the charts as the ‘most free’ country in the world, scoring 100 out of 100. Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen is rather unlikely to agree with such an assessment. Last week, the long-serving politician and grandmother marked the one-year anniversary of her acquittal for ‘hate speech’ charges. Her alleged crime?
