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California congressmen wrote a letter to state attorney general Kamala Harris claiming the freedom of speech “is not designed to protect fraud and deceit” of the likes being spread by oil company ExxonMobil about global warming. Nineteen Democratic lawmakers told Harris her “investigation as to whether ExxonMobil lied about the truth of climate change and misled investors does not constitute an effort to silence speech or scientific research.

Academic: Extremism debate is being stifled By Graeme Paton, Education Correspondent Last Updated: 2:13am GMT 16/03/2007 An academic at the centre of a row over censorship last night accused Britain of being the worst country for stifling debate on Muslim extremism. Matthias Küntzel, a German author and political scientist, was due to give a lecture at Leeds University on Islamic anti-Semitism but it was cancelled after complaints from Muslim students. As disclosed by The Daily Telegraph yesterday, a number of protest emails were received, although the university insisted the event was axed because of safety fears. Last night the academic,...

CAIRO, Egypt - A Tunisian blogger is facing a campaign of state intimidation after appearing in February at a conference at the American Enterprise Institute for Arab allies of freedom. Since she returned to Tunis, Neila Charchour Hachicha's husband has been sentenced to prison, her house has been surveilled by the state security services, and she has become the target of a particularly dirty trick against her recently engaged daughter. According to Ms. Hachicha, the regime's intelligence services recently distributed a doctored photograph of her daughter to make her appear to be wearing a dress without underwear. The blogger's offense...

China Stifles Dissent Ahead of CongressNewsMax WiresMonday, Sept. 16, 2002 SHANGHAI, China -- China has curbed press freedoms, detained and sentenced activists to jail and disrupted access to the Internet as part of a coordinated effort to crush dissent ahead of the 16th Communist Party Congress, the first national party gathering in five years, political observers and human rights groups said. In recent weeks, observers and human rights groups have noted an increase in surveillance and detention of political activists in China along with other clear indications of a full-scale crackdown. The campaign comes as China's top party officials...