Free Speech

Australian scholar Fredrick Töben is in jail even as his book is being published. He was handed a 3-months sentence in Australia for refusing to surrender his freedom of speech in return for a judicial slap on the wrist. Instead, this brave historian took the jail time. 50 Days in Gaol is Töben's assemblage of material covering the time he spent in England's Wandsworth Prison while the English and German governments wrangled over whether or not he could be extradited to Germany for...