Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934426.html A far-right Greek historian was sentenced to 14 months in prison Thursday for inciting racial hatred with a book that denies the Holocaust took place, court officials said. Historian Costas Plevris appealed his sentence and was not taken into custody. A three-member panel of judges voted 2-1 to find Plevris guilty of inciting violence…

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/09/news/iran.php TEHRAN: Hundreds of Iranian students angry about a crackdown on activists protested Sunday at Tehran University, the second such demonstration in less than a week, according to witnesses and state radio. One witness, Mehdi Arabshahi, said the campus protest lasted more than two hours as dozens of students chanted slogans against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s…