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Cover-ups, lies and censorship
DATELINE: 7/2/06
20 February, 6.30pm at NUJ, 308/312 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1
Speakers: Steve Bell (Cartoonist) Martin Bright (Journalist), Jeremy Corbyn MP, Katharine Gun, Mark Stephens (solicitor representing Al-jazeera).
Chair: Tim Gopsill (Joint chair CPBF).
The forthcoming trial of two men charged under the Official Secrets Act and the publication of cartoons deemed offensive to Muslims will be the discussed at an open meeting 'Cover-ups, lies and censorship' organised by the CPBF and NUJ on 20 February.
Brief background to OSA trial
On 25 April two men will appear in court charged under the Official Secrets Act. David Keogh is accused of passing a document to Leo O'Connor, who used to work for the former Labour Northampton South MP Anthony Clarke, in 2004.
Mr O'Connor is charged under Section 5 of the act with receiving a document without lawful authority.
The trial follows the report by the Daily Mirror on 22 November 2005,of a memo of a meeting between Blair and Bush in 2004. The Mirror claimed that Bush proposed bombing Al-jazerra. The prosecution wants the trial held in secret and has made application to foreign secretary, Jack Straw.
Last modified: Thursday, February 9, 2006
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World Press Freedom Day
More reporters are currently imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country in the world. Only a matter of weeks ago lawyers failed to persuade a Turkish court to release a 76-year-old journalist from a Turkish internet news station.
World Press Freedom Day on Friday May 3, 2013 is being marked in Britain by a rally to highlight the dangers facing journalists in Turkey and in this podcast, Nicholas Jones speaks to Barry White, Organiser at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Sam Bamford, the TUC's policy officer for Eastern Europe and Africa about the importance of a campaign to highlight international press freedom.
The World Press Freedom Day rally is being staged by the National Union of Journalists at the NUJ head office, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1 on Thursday May 2, 6pm-8pm.
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The UK launch of a 'European Citizens' Initiative' calling for EU rules against concentration of media power will take place on Thursday March 21 from 11:00am – 12:30pm in Committee Room 4A at the House of Lords, London. Guest speakers will include actor and activist Hugh Grant (pictured), media consultant Claire Enders, Professor Steven Barnett, Barry McCall (President of the NUJ) and Marc Gruber (Director of the European Federation of Journalists).
A European Citizens' Initiative is an official petition, like a Downing Street petition. If it succeeds in gathering a million signatures across the EU, the Commission is obliged to respond.
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Previous stories
Free Speech & Censorship
CPBF response to the cartoons
The Danish Cartoon Controversy
IFJ call for debate as cartoons cost editor his job
All the news that doesn't fit
Gagging the truth
Borris Johnson vows 'I'll go to jail to print the truth'
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Freedom of Information Blockage
FoI training from the Campaign for Freedom of information
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