freespeech
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press suppressed in the UK parliament
Submitted by beast on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 10:46
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Copied from the Spectator's article (who knows they might be gagged too);
"This time, perhaps even the lawyers have gone too far. It's hard to recall, even in the long history of appalling gagging orders, a more disgraceful injunction than this:
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.
