Program
09:00 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:20 Opening Remarks
- Martin Palouš, Director of Václav Havel Library, Czech Republic
- Renata Klečková, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
10:20 – 12:30 Panel 1: Limits of Freedom of Speech
Moderator: Martin Palouš, Václav Havel Library, Czech Republic- Zdeněk Kühn, Supreme Administrative Court, Czech Republic
Political speech and the power to dissolve political parties - Peter Molnar, Central European University, Hungary
Limiting the exceptional limits of freedom of speech and responses to “hate speech” - Daniel Rietiker, European Court of Human Rights, Switzerland
Restrictions to Freedom of Expression in the European context - Ladislav Vyhnánek, Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
Hate speech: Balancing the competing interests - Discussion
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch break
13:20 – 15:30 Panel 2: New Challenges for Freedom of Speech
Moderator: Veronika Bílková, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Ahmad Sharief (Egypt) , Embassy of Egypt in Khartoun, Sudan
Defamation of Religion - Radwan Ziadeh, Visiting Scholar at Dubai Initiative at Kennedy school of Government at Harvard University, Syria
Freedom of Speech under Authoritarian regimes in the Arab World - Pedro Fuentes Cid, Presidio Politico Cubano, USA
Historical perspective of Freedom of expression in Cuba. - Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Threats to Freedom of Expression in the Age of Information - Gregory Asmolov, London School of Economics and Political Science, Great Britain
Online Control and Dimensions of Power: A case of Internet Freedom in Russia - Discussion
15:30 – 15:45 Concluding Remarks
Martin Palouš, Director of Václav Havel Library, Czech Republic
Side events – Exhibitions
Press Against Persecution – Cuban Samizdat 2000 – 2010
Silenced Voices: An Exhibition About Murdered Human Rights Activists in Russia
Evening of Solidarity (Archa Theatre)
19:00 – 19:20 Opening Remarks
Martin Palouš, Director of Václav Havel Library, Czech Republic
19:20 – 20:30 Panel discussion: Epoch-Making Power of Free Speech
Moderator: Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, USA
- Omar Rodrigez Saludes, Cuba
Independent journalist and political prisoner - Dolkun Isa, East Turkinstan (Xin Jiang uyghur Autonomy region in China)
General secretary of the World Uyghur Congress, and president of the East Turkestan Union in Europe - Radwan Ziadeh, Syria
Visiting Scholar at Dubai Initiative at Kennedy school of Government at Harvard University - Htein Lin, Burma
Artist and political prisoner
20:30 – 21:00 The Plastic People of the Universe
Performance by the Prague rock band