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Friday, 11 June 2021
** Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg
speaks 50 years on
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Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg surrenders to the authorities. Photo: Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo
Fifty years ago this weekend, the New York Times ran a story under the headline “Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing US Involvement”.
The headline is understated and far from the sensationalist language that would be used for a similarly explosive exclusive today.
The article, published on 13 June 1971, was the first of a series that outlined the revelations of what became known as the Pentagon Papers, disclosures from a 7,000-page report leaked by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Index's Mark Frary spoke to Ellsberg this week ([link removed]) who believes little has changed in the interim and that young whistleblowers need to hold the US government to account.
** Index and 21 other bodies condemn lawsuits brought by ENRC against public watchdogs
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Worker at Eurasian Resources Group (ENRC). Alexey Rezvykh / Alamy Stock Photo
Lawsuits represent an egregious attempt to curtail freedom of expression and jeopardise anti-corruption efforts, says Index on Censorship ([link removed]) .
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** Wake up Williamson: the Magdalen College controversy
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[link removed] secretary of state for education has condemned students at Oxford for daring to remove a picture of Her Majesty the Queen from the wall of their common room. Is this the latest battleground in the so-called “culture wars”? Some politicians and commentators seem to think so, suggesting that this was the latest woke act to re-write British history. Our CEO Ruth Smeeth shares her views ([link removed]) .
Photo: Steve Parsons/PA Archive/PA Images
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** Statement on the Maya Forstater judgement
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[link removed] week, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an appeal by Maya Forstater relating to her employment by the Center for Global Development. Index intervened in the case, over the core principle of free expression and protecting free speech in law. Read our statement here ([link removed]) .
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