Free Speech: Democratic Asia shows troubling trend on free speech - Iain Marlow

Whatever one thinks about caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, the massacre at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo certainly focused the world’s attention on freedom of speech. But while the world declared “Je suis Charlie,” there were several worrying developments in the ability of people to speak freely in Japan and South Korea, Asia’s most vibrant and developed democracies.

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