Cambridge University Press buckles
Aug 2, 2007
Bishop Hill in Civil liberties

This is a story which needs to be aired widely.

Cambridge University Press has buckled in the face of a libel suit from Khalid bin Mafouz, a Saudi financier who has been linked to terrorist financing. These terrorist links were the subject of a new CUP book entitled Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World. Unable to defend themselves because of the reversed burden of proof in the UK courts, CUP have now agreed to issue an apology and pulp all unsold copies of the book. Essentially the UK's libel laws are complicit in silencing freedom of speech worldwide.

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