Legal
Activist Bill Browder urges TCD to release free speech event recording
Financier Bill Browder, who spoke at the conference about defamation law, says Trinity should not bow to threats to freedom of expression
The decision by Trinity College Dublin’s legal team to block the release of a recording of a free speech conference because it is was afraid of being sued “adds fuel to the fire” of those who want to silence the work of journalists, a prominent activist financier has said.
Bill Browder, an anti-Putin activist dubbed ‘Russia’s most wanted man’, called on TCD to “stand boldly” in the face of threats to freedom of expression.
“It’s ...