Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Thorvaldur Gylfason is Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland. He was one of 25 representatives in Iceland‘s Constitutional Council in session from April to July 2011, elected by the nation and appointed by parliament to revise Iceland’s constitution.
The people of Iceland drafted a new constitution. But their parliament has essentially ignored it.
In spite of clear popular support, Iceland's new crowd-sourced constitution was recently killed by politicians. An...
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