21 August 2007

Terror threat to academic freedom

This is a potentially worrying development: "the federal prosecutor, Monika Harms, was urged to release Mr Holm from his single-cell in Berlin's Moabit prison. 'We strongly object to the notion of intellectual complicity adopted by the federal prosecutor's office in its investigation ... such arguments allow any piece of academic writing to be potentially incriminating,' the academics said."
Protests over terror arrest of German academic | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited:

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