LARS VILKS
Free Press Society
Denmark
Lars Vilks, artist Sweden, receives award from Danish association promoting free speech, Trykkefrihedsselskabet ('Press Freedom Society' - a more direct translation?)
http://www.thelocal.se/20150315/cartoonist-lars-vilks-in-first-public-appearance-since-copenhagen-attacks
Trykkefrihedsselskabet assoc. prior free speech awards to:
- >Kurt Westergaard cartoonist
- >editor Flemming Rose, Jyllands-Posten
trykkefrihed = trykke frihed = press freedom
known as: Free Press Society
f. 2004 in Denmark
"Without freedom of speech, no free society."
Article caught my eye, as I knew that Lars Vilks has been in hiding for years, under police protection in Sweden, which struck me as an absolutely insane way for him to have to live ...
... and I think he was also the target of the recent Copenhagen attack (yes, it sure looks like it - or the event was).
More on Lars Vilks - here.
The Wikipedia entry on Vilks discusses the Copenhagen attack in the most recent subsection, going into detail about the Copenhagen cafe event arrangements and who attended.
However, while the entry (which contains an overhead link to a separate entry on the Copenhagen attack) states that gunman (who killed 'one civilian' and wounded three policemen), was subsequently killed by police, the Vilks entry has left out shocking and important details relevant to Vilks and the Copenhagen attack, by not plainly stating that the following took place:
Film director Finn Noergaard, 55, was killed yesterday at a cafe. Hours later, security employee Dan Uzan, 37, was shot in the head as he stood outside a building belonging to the city's Great Synagogue. [1]
The gunman, Omar El-Hussein, later shot dead a Jewish man outside a synagogue before he was killed by police. [2]
Seriously, how hard is it (a) name the gunman and (b) key in the names of the two dead victims?
Maybe less focus on who organised and attended a cafe event and a bit more attention paid to the people that were murdered would have made for a more sensible entry on the subject of the Vilks Copenhagen attack subsection, irrespective of the overhead link-to provision in the entry.
It's not as if the relevant information wasn't available, as the citation link is to the Daily Mail article which contains names.
When key points are left out of entries, I think it damages confidence in the source (Wikipedia) and makes for an inferior information repository, even if there is links to other sections. It just looks really shifty excluding information that is key and information that has a lot of impact.
More on the Vilks latest event:
Israel National News:
Cartoonist Makes First Public Appearance Since Copenhagen Attack
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192608
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