Turkish court hears 'insult' case
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A Turkish professor faces five years in jail if found guilty of insulting Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.
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ISTANBUL -- In a new case pitting free speech against Turkish nationalists, a young novelist is due in court here this week to defend herself against charges that she insulted ``Turkishness" because a character in her newest book, ``The Bastard of Istanbul," refers to the deaths of Armenians in 1915 as genocide.
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A Russian court on Wednesday held hearings in an unprecedented lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old student who says being taught the theory of evolution in school violates her rights and insults her religious beliefs.
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A federal appeals court in New York will hear arguments Wednesday over whether the government's decisions on what constitutes indecent speech violates the First Amendment rights of broadcasters.
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A lawyer for best-selling novelist Orhan  Pamuk chided Turkey's justice minister on Friday for suggesting  his client was to blame for the controversy surrounding an  article of the penal code blasted by the EU.
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Turkey is preparing to amend a controversial law on freedom of speech that has been criticized repeatedly by the European Union and could slow EU accession talks with Brussels.
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And France bans happy slapping Turkey has taken steps to prevent access to YouTube after a video insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, was posted on the site.â¦
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On one hand there is the European Union, demanding Turkey reform its criminal code. On the other, a powerful group of conservative Muslims who insist such changes should include criminalizing adultery.
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Lawyers filed an appeal Monday on behalf of a blogger who was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president.
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A court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked Wednesday after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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A political science professor was convicted Monday of insulting the revered founder of modern Turkey and given a 15-month suspended prison sentence, a news report said.
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Georgia's high court hears a case Friday concerning merits of a 10-year sentence for a sordid but unforced act.
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A Turkish Kurdish politician is   entitled to challenge the European Union's inclusion of the   Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group on its list of   terrorist organizations, an adviser to the EU's top court said.
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A judge bans the word from a sexual assault case, sparking debate over freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial
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A court hears claims that a student accused of terrorism wanted to be a suicide bomber.
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A legal row over comments left on a football chat site have re-started debate about free speech.
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Debate about reforms to Turkey&#39;s penal code, critical to the country&#39;s bid to join the European Union, has highlighted the relationship between the mainly-Muslim state and the 25-member bloc.