Prison censorship: stupid excuses, part 1 So HMP Whitemoor has banned FRFI again. I was originally told this was due to it being ‘a racist and anti-authority newspaper’, but after complaining about the stupidity of this claim, Governor Ruth Stephens, head of security, changed the excuse to the return address for FRFI being ‘a security risk’. As I have no intention of returning my issue of the newspaper and definitely not prior to having read it, this new excuse is as ridiculous as the original one. It seems wherever I go, the attempts to restrict my access to FRFI are based on more and more desperate claims. Woodhill, Manchester and now here, all make up their own nonsense to achieve the same objective. These restrictions always begin once I am mentioned in the publication, but strangely enough I have never once heard of any other newspaper being banned even though most of them have run stories about me on their front pages. Maybe if FRFI printed fantasy like the tabloids it would be deemed a respectable enough paper to enter prisons without so much difficulty. KEVAN THAKRAR HMP Whitemoor Frankland: stupid excuses, part 2 Meanwhile, at HMP Frankland Rangzieb Ahmed has once again had his copy of FRFI withheld, after issue 239 carried an article highlighting the harassment he has been subject to at the prison, including, ironically, having FRFI withheld. Following an FRFI supporters complaint to the prison, including a copy of a recent prison ombudsman ruling that prisons should normally simply remove the offending article rather than withhold an entire publication, we have received the following from the security department at Frankland. ‘Thank you for your letter... The decision was taken to withhold the publication due to the possible issues it may cause at HMP Frankland. Mr Ahmed is will [sic] within his rights to submit an application to have the publication with the article removed.’
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 20:09:24 +0000
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