Jun 10
Free Speech Notes: Yemen, Canada
Blogger Jane Novak (intro to her at this BD article) has been working on the case of Yemeni journalist Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani. Now see-dubya at MichelleMalkin.com reports that al-Khaiwani has been sentenced to six years of hard labor. His crime? Reporting the news. It could easily have been a death sentence.
Speaking of freedom of the press, anyone who writes in public should keep an eye on things… not in Yemen… in Canada. Read about this absurd and scary tribunal, after which
a group of provincial human-rights commissars will decide whether or not National Review’s incomparable Mark Steyn and the largest-circulating magazine in Canada, Maclean’s, will be fined or otherwise censured for printing an excerpt from Steyn’s book, America Alone.
