December 7, 2007
Protesters Disrupt Debate at Oxford Union on Free Speech
Protesters forced the Oxford Union debating society to briefly delay a controversial debate on free speech last week. The event featured the British historian David Irving, who served a prison sentence in Austria on charges of denying the Holocaust, and the leader of Britain's far-right British National Party, Nick Griffin, who has been convicted of incitement to racial hatred.
The British minister who oversees higher education used a speech the next day to weigh in on the issue.
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