U.K. Press not Permitted to Report on Activities of Government
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.
Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.
So what's this all about? A British company is dumping toxic waste in Africa. Not just any company either, Trafigura. It's one of those commodity companies that is raping the world for profit.
A boat chartered by the company, the Probo Koala, was caught dumping 528,000 litres of extremely alkaline waste off the Ivory Coast. The Guardian obtained internal Trafigura emails which are claimed to show the company knew the crap was toxic, but was dumping anyway. Now the Trafigura is going sue-happy with the help of their retained legal firm Carter-Ruck. They're trying to prevent this news from breaking, but the Internet is aware, now.
