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LSE Literary Weekend - Religious Defamation

Spring 2009 | Public lectures and events | Video
Spring 2009 | Public lectures and events | Video
Episode • Mar 1, 2009 • 1h 23m
Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Ivan Hare, Kenan Malik | A year after the repeal of blasphemy from English law, religious defamation laws are tightening their grip on the world, with the apparent support of the United Nations. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? A discussion of the nature of blasphemy in the twenty-first century.

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