Free speech must be for all


Even if we disapprove of what they say, we should defend to the death their right to say it.

ONE of the difficulties about defending the freedom of speech is that one has to defend speech that one likes as well as speech that one does not.

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Opinion , Azmi Sharom , columnist

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