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Cohen, Freedom of Expression, misconduct and the SCJ

By |2024-11-18T20:07:45+00:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: News And Analyses, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

On April 26, 1968, Paul Robert Cohen was observed in a corridor of a Los Angeles courthouse wearing a jacket bearing the words “F... the Draft”. He was sentenced at first instance to 30 days in prison, a sentence upheld by an appellate court, for "maliciously and willfully disturbing the peace [...] by offensive conduct". [...]

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On fake news and electronic communications

By |2024-11-18T20:11:05+00:00August 9th, 2024|Categories: News And Analyses|Tags: , , , , |

For three years, the government (former and present) has been promoting a bill to amend the Criminal Code, Chapter 154, aimed at criminalizing fake news and forms of electronic communication, telephone and Internet. The Anastasiades government initiated the bill with its then minister of Justice Emily Yiolitis. There is no point in going into details [...]

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Refugees, threads, deaths

By |2024-08-09T14:28:35+00:00August 9th, 2024|Categories: News And Analyses|Tags: , , , |

We are informed that in the context of the events organized to commemorate 50 years of displacement from our homes and lands, the authorities have created "Threads", a project for each displaced person to record the itinerary followed and all the places one has stayed in throughout our ongoing uprooting. Okay, we've pulled the thread [...]

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Winners and losers in the 2016 municipal elections

By |2024-08-09T13:20:31+00:00May 20th, 2024|Categories: News And Analyses|Tags: , , , , , |

Abstention, as a dominant element of the electoral contest, has determined the result for the election of mayors. The extent to which each political power was affected by abstention impacted on its ability to get the candidate it supported elected in a municipality. The main conclusion is that the four major parties were negatively affected [...]

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