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German authorities accused of attacking free speech after book ban

GERMAN authorities were accused of trampling over free speech today after they banned a pro-Kurdish publishing house seizing books promoting an ecological campaign in Syria.

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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, from the anti-immigration Christian Social Union (CSU), ordered the closure of the Mesopotamia publishing house on February 12. The MIR Multimedia organisation was also closed down.

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