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Title: who was the first martyr for free speech
Post by: type_char on June 09, 2004, 04:41:58 PM

trial of socrates (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socratesaccount.html)

interesting so thought I would share.

Title: who was the first martyr for free speech
Post by: Thrawn on June 09, 2004, 05:00:23 PM

You can read Socrates' defence here in Plato's "The Apology".

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

Title: who was the first martyr for free speech
Post by: storch on June 09, 2004, 05:22:16 PM

Mr. Black or does he count as the first tribe to be martyred for free speech?