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• Rights of free meeting (Movements, HR)

  Britain: Warwick Student Union to host Maryam Namazie as an External Speaker

  3 November 2016, by Warwick Student Union

  Presentation:
  Maryam Namazie had been barred from speaking at the University of Warwick in the name of the Student Union. The Warwick SU has published a clarification concerning its stand we are reproducing below. Concerning the background, please refer to our website (article 37406), Britain (…)

• Rights of free meeting (Movements, HR)

  Britain & free-speech principles: Maryam Namazie – secularist, human-rights campaigner – barred from speaking at The University of Warwick

  25 September 2016, by DAVID Benjamin

  Dear supporters
  As President of WASH, I feel that it is important that I comment about the recent controversy regarding the decision taken by The University of Warwick’s Student Union to prohibit Maryam Namazie from speaking on campus. For those unfamiliar with Maryam, she is a secularist, a (…)

• Rights of free meeting (Movements, HR)

  Belgium: A meeting on Syria banned in St Gilles

  20 November 2015, by LCR-SAP (Belgique)

  On Friday, November 20, 2015, the Socialist Party mayor (burgomaster) of Saint-Gilles, Charles Picqué, decided at the last minute to ban the conference “Wars and revolution in Syria”, organized in Pianofabriek by the Léon Lesoil educational foundation.
  The 80 people present met as a (…)

• Rights of free meeting (Movements, HR)

  Britain & Free-speech: Student union blocks speech by ’inflammatory’ anti-sharia activist

  26 September 2015, by ADAMS Richard, Council of ex-Muslims UK, NAMAZIE Maryam, NSS (UK)

  Warwick University union says Maryam Namazie could incite hatred on campus if allowed to take up secularist society invitation.
  A human rights campaigner has been barred from speaking at Warwick University after organisers were told she was “highly inflammatory and could incite hatred”. (…)