Comments on: Sedition and Lèse-majesté

By: cearta.ie » Cowengate: no use crying over spilt milk

cearta.ie » Cowengate: no use crying over spilt milk — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:21:03 +0000

[...] libel, a Thai blogger has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment after pleading guilty under Thailand’s ugly lèse-majesté laws – his crime was to have posted anti-monarchy pictures and comments on his blog, and two journalists [...]

By: cearta.ie » Cowengate and seditious libel

cearta.ie » Cowengate and seditious libel — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:13:01 +0000

[...] can be asked in this context demonstrates just how ridiculous the crime actually is. It’s on the way out in Australia. Now, thankfully, its days may now finally be numbered, both in Ireland and in the UK [...]

By: cearta.ie » Why are legislators so loath to repeal criminal libel provisions?

cearta.ie » Why are legislators so loath to repeal criminal libel provisions? — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:56:46 +0000

[...] I have already blogged extensively about a similar Irish effort (here, here, here, here, here and here) in Part 5 of the still-delayed Defamation Bill, 2006. Whatever happened to that? Indeed, as the [...]