Category Archive for "Iran"

Baby of Oslo, San Francisco Freedom Forum presents dissidents, defectors and survivors

Sep 29 2016

At the end of September I attended the San Francisco Freedom Forum, the one-day spin off of the acclaimed Oslo Freedom Forum…

Rushdie slams regressive PC speech as ‘time of appeasement’

Sep 08 2016

In an interview with Le Figaro magazine (France) author Salman Rushdie (Satanic Verses) slammed Western society’s embracement of politically correct speech in which…

#diplomacywins, a cautionary tale

Jan 18 2016

The Columbia Journalism Review Joel Simon (also E.D. of Committee to Protect Journalists) comments on the release of Washpo’s Jason Rezaian and…

Helping youth exposed to conflict understand their rights to freedom of expression in order to build a more peaceful society.