Article: Man addicted to sex magazines loses battle for right to bring them to B ritain.

Article: A Mapplethorpe battle in Britain. (authorities seize and may ...
U.S. News & World Report;  March 23, 1998 ;     513 words ... ... seized a book of his pictures from the University of Central England and may soon destroy it under Britain's Obscene Publications Act. Investigators last week questioned an executive of publisher Random House, UCE's vice chancellor, and ...

Dictionary definition: obscene publications
A Dictionary of Law;      700+ words ...obscene publications Material that tends to deprave or corrupt. Under the Obscene Publications Acts 1959 and 1964 it is an offence to publish an obscene article or to have an obscene article for publication for gain. For the purposes of the Acts ...

Article: China seizes 84 mln illegal, obscene publications ...
Xinhua News Agency;  January 13, 2009 ;     350 words ...China seizes 84 mln illegal, obscene publications in 2008 BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- China confiscated about 83.84 million pornographic, pirated and unauthorized publications ...

Article: China launches national campaign against illegal, obscene ...
Xinhua News Agency;  April 22, 2009 ;     357 words ...China launches national campaign against illegal, obscene publications BEIJING, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities launched a nationwide crackdown Wednesday on illegal and pornographic publications ...

Article: 'Obscene' publications face class action suit in ...
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates);  July 9, 2008 ;     653 words ...Manila: A religious denomination has filed a class action suit against several magazines it said were to blame for corrupting the youth. Pastors and preachers of the conservative Baptist Christian sect on Monday moved a case of "grave scandal and publication of obscene materials" against executives

Encyclopedia entry: Censorship of Publications Act
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;      329 words ...Censorship of Publications Act (1929). The Act created a Board of Censors of the Irish State , and was used to ban all literature which made explicit references ...

Article: Law logs on to chat rooms; Planned amendments to the Film and ...
The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  August 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Independent has learnt that MXit and other such services will be regulated under amendments to be passed to the Film and Publications Act. Iyavar Chetty, the acting head of the Film and Publications Board, said, once the amendments were passed into law ...