Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Australian Peter Greste were sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial last month for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt.
Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, and Australian Peter Greste were sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial last month for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt.
In the first 18 months after Mr. Suharto stepped down, 1,500 press licenses were issued by the liberal-minded new minister of information, Yunus Yosfiah.
David Cameron and most of his Conservative Party are against it, mainly on the grounds cited by John Milton in his 17th-century polemic against press licensing: "If we think to regulate printing we…must regulate all recreations and pastimes".
That's why the MPs' letter can solemnly claim that a legally imposed regime of regulation – the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) was really a front job for the industry, not a regulator – would be a return to the kind of press licensing abolished in 1695, though the punitive stamp duty on newspapers ( a "tax on knowledge": ho, ho) was actually only lifted in 1855.
Yen Press licensed Pig Bride for an English-language release in North America and began serializing it in the manga anthology Yen Plus.
A press licensing regime compromises freedom of expression by allowing a limited group to determine who can exercise this universal right and who can't".
According to the verdict issued by Hassan Farid, the judge presiding over the case, Canadian national Mohamed Fahmy, Australian Peter Greste, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were found guilty of operating without proper press licenses, and "spreading false and harmful news" in the country.
Its six chapters cover definitions of publications, printing presses, licenses for Lebanese publications, foreign publications, definitions of various print media-related crimes, controls over publications' funds, sales, as well as Lebanon's two press unions, the Higher Press Council, and the press' disciplinary council.
They freed the slaves, but they have to re-enslave us, because they still need somebody to press them license plates.
The Lemelson foundation, set up in 1997, continues to press for licensing fees based on Mr. Lemelson's patents.
