Description of Incident: Protesters in the Narmada Valley feared that their homes could be flooded if the dam is built. Roy stood beside the protesters in their objection.

Results of Incident: Roy was jailed for one day, after Justice RP Sethi said that the freedom of speech did not grant anyone license to scandalize the court or lower its dignity.

Description of Incident: On October 3, 2003, Venezuelan officials confiscated transmission equipment from the radio station in Caracas. Jesse Chacon, Information Minister, said that the siezure was part of a routine inspection in response to Globovision operating on frequencies illegally. Last year President Hugo Chavez accused Globovision of supporting a coup against him and threatened to revoke the station's license as well as the licenses of other private stations that he views as biased against him.

Results of Incident: The news channel remained on the air.

Description of Incident: Nigerian secret police threatened to deport two foriegn journalists, Jeff Kionange, the west African bureau chief of CNN, and his cameraman, Simon Matiri. Koinange and Matiri were held for several hours on arrival at Lagos' International Airport. The two men were approached by a group of police and immigration officials who told them that they were to leave on the next flight from Nigeria. Matiri was slapped to the ground when he tried to videotape the incident.

Results of Incident: The journalists were allowed to stay in the country. According to Koinange, "at least they corrected it quickly, and it was good to see that." The Nigerian government is still trying to improve its reputation for freedom of press violations.

Description of Incident: The Canadian Human Rights Commission ruled that the social benefits of elimintating hate speech outweigh the issues of protection of free speech. The CHRC stated, "we now know that the internet is not a 'lawless zone' and cannot be used to promote hate."

Results of Incident: Zundel was forced to "cease and desist" from using his website. Zundel is currently facing deportation to Germany because of an alleged immigration violation.

Description of Incident: The Ryton Police Training College refused to display copies of "Gay Times." Chief Superintendent Stan Horlock said the publication was not suitable for its community resource center because the material could be "offensive."

Results of Incident: The Lesbian and Gay Police Association said that it was a form of censorship. The college agreed to keep a copy of the magazine in a clearly labelled box file.

Description of Incident: Belarusan customs officials are confiscating any material that makes negative suggestions towards Aleksandr Lukashenka and his government. Those taking laptop computers across the Belarusan border must surrender them to customs for inspection twenty-four hours before departure.

Results of Incident: Freedom of speech in Belarus is being compromised. Belarus' state airline, Belavia, may lose customers; since customs controls on the Belarus-Russian border have been lifted, businesspersons leaving Belarus with laptop computers can take a train to Moscow for their flights.

Description of Incident: Police in Bangladesh confiscated copies of Newsweek's Asian edition, which was published in Singapore to be released on February 11, 2002. According to the Bangladeshi government the magazine was prohibited "for carrying a portrait of the Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him)that may hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims."

Results of Incident: The magazines were confiscated.

Description of Incident: In response to Maines' statement, radio stations across the country banned and supported boycotting the group's music. In Bossier City, Louisiana the local radio station, KRMD, held a "Dixie Chicks Destruction Day." Two DJs from KKCS of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dave Moore and Jeff Singer, were suspended for disobeying the station's ban on playing the Dixie Chicks.

Results of Incident: Regardless of the negative reaction to Maine's statements, the Dixie Chicks were nominated for the Country Music Awards' Album of the Year and Group of the Year in 2003.

Description of Incident: Bostick and Johnson's works were part of the "Second Annual Juried Photography Exhibition," sponsored by the Marietta Restoration Associates. Bostick was awarded first prize for his photographs. During the contest a member of the Marietta Restoration Association's board of directors, Jeanine Hill, objected to Bostick and Johnson's work, claiming that the nude imagery was inappropriate for public display. The Marietta Borough Mayor, Oliver Overlander, gave Hill's husband permission to lock the entrance to the exhibit, and placed police outside of the hall while Johnson and Bostick's piece were removed and brought to the police station. The board of directors stripped Bostick of his prizes.

Results of Incident: The artists contacted the ACLU and filed suit against the Marietta Restoration Associates and the Borough of Marietta. The artists sought a reinstatement of their awards and the organization of a new exhibit for their works.

Description of Incident: These two pieces were part of an ACLU exhibit called "See No Evil," part of a month-long "Uncensored Celebration." The artists were invited to display previously censored works. After the exhibit was installed the Union Director, Dusty Miller, told the Cultural Forum Visual Arts Coordinator, Anna Spickerman, that Saturn's and Molla's pieces violated the state's obscenity law. The two peices were curtained off from the rest of the exhibit, out of view from passing students.

Results of Incident: Spickerman organized a letter writing campaign to the Union Board of Directors requesting that they reconsider Miller's decision. The Board overturned his decision, however Miller appealed to the University President who did not respond. The curtains remained until the end of the exhibit.

Description of Incident: The Center at High Falls is a visitor information center that often exhibits local artists' work. An organization called Baha'i sponsored the exhibit, "Racism: Just Undo it." After the exhibit's installation, two employees contacted the Center Director, Lydia Boddie-Neal, and complained about the two paintings. Boddie-Neal removed the paintings because they showed frontal nudity and suggested that the "explicit and provacative nature of the message" might jeopardize fundraising efforts.

Results of Incident: The pieces were removed and the center enacted a policy giving itself final approval for all work on display.

Description of Incident: The sculpture was entered into an auction sponsored by Barney's department store in New York City. Hundreds of artists' works were displayed in Barney's front window. After two weeks the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, William Donohue, warned the store to removed the sculpture and contacted the media, accusing the work of blasphemy. Barney's recieved hundreds of phone calls calling for the piece's removal following the radio announcement.

Results of Incident: Sachs' sculpture was removed from the window display. Barney's Senior Vice President for Creative Services, Simon Doonan, took resonsibility for the display, calling it his "error in judgement."

Description of Incident: The painting was on exhibit in the Massena Public Library's main reading room. After one week, Reverend Robert Wiernusz claimed that the piece was pornographic. After hearing the complaint the town supervisor, Duane Hazelton, removed the piece from display.

Results of Incident: RoseMarie Wurm contacted the ACLU and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, who wrote Hazelton, objecting to his actions. The Massena Library Board unanimously voted to reinstall the work before Hazelton recieved the letter. The library is now working on a free expression policy.

Description of Incident: Tom Coburn, Nevada County's general services analyst called for the removal of the paintings. Coburn's supervisor, the director of general services, Richard Reader, supported the decision. The artists were told to take their works down from the exhibit. A few of the pieces were rehung, covered and labeled "CENSORED." Subsequently the County Board of Supervisors decided to cancel the whole show. The exhibit was scheduled to continue through October 30, 2003.

Description of Incident: The works were included in an exhibit in the Cambridge City Hall Annex, sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Council. A female city employee complained that the pieces constituted sexual harassment. City Councilor, William Walsh, removed a photo of a penis as well as some of the sex paraphernalia from the boxes and brought them to his home. Walsh stated that he was "a guardian of the city's property...you tell me what vibrators have to do with being a work of art." The installation of the exhibit was discontinued.

Results of Incident: Walsh returned the stolen pieces. The next day city attorneys determined that the pieces were not obscene, pornographic, or sexually harassing and allowed the exhibit to be intstalled with warning signs regarding the contents of the work and screens to block the works from public view. Evers filed a lawsuit against Walsh for willful and malicious destruction of property.