TUNISIA: CENSORSHIP & PERSECUTION ON BEHALF OF ISLAM...

Censorship and Persecution in the Name of Islam: A Tunisian Weekly Counts the Ways

In an article titled "Ban… Ban…," published in the Tunisian French-language weekly Réalités, [1] Tunisian columnist Zyed Krichen denounced the policy of censorship and denial of free speech that he said had been implemented by most Arab states and Islamist groups "since the advent of printing." In the second part of his article, he lists instances of censorship and persecution in the name of Islam from various Muslim countries, from 1925 to date, including banned works and writers and artists who have been imprisoned, flogged, and/or killed.

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1) Censorship and Persecution in the Name of Islam: A Tunisian Weekly Counts the Ways