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In 2015, Russia banned importation of the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. [108] [109] On May 5, 2015, customs authorities in Russia seized a shipment of religious literature containing Ossetian-language Bibles published by Jehovah's Witnesses. Russian customs officials in the city of Vyborg held up a shipment ...
An expanded, Spanish-language translation of A Short History of the World, discussing recent world events, was banned by Spanish censors in 1940. This edition of A Short History was not published in Spain until 1963. In two 1948 reports, Spanish censors gave a list of objections to the books's publication.
Image:Map of USA-bw.png – Black and white outlines for states, for the purposes of easy coloring of states. Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG – US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps. Image:Map of USA with county outlines.png – Grey and white map of USA with county outlines.
Images of the prime minister's official residence, The Lodge have not been blurred. However, images of its roof have been and the entrance to The Lodge is blurred in Google Street View. [6] The government of Malaysia has stated that it will not ask Google to censor sensitive areas because that would identify the locations it deemed to be ...
“The district cannot ban only some ‘sexually obscene’ books while allowing others,” such as the Bible. (In its news release, the foundation purposely did not capitalize the word Bible).
In the 1720s, the kabbalistic works of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato were banned by religious leaders. In the 1690s, the book Pri Chadash was banned in Egypt for arguing on earlier authorities. [16] In the modern era, when government censorship of Jewish books is uncommon, books are mainly self-censored, or banned by Orthodox Jewish religious ...
Map of colonial India, which was partitioned to create Pakistan as a homeland for Indian Muslims [13] The partition of India entailed creating two countries - India and Pakistan - on the basis of religion, [14] as demanded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the All India Muslim League, though not without significant opposition. [15] [16] [17]
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