Email interception: Not one out of 10 emails resent to Nobel laureates in America last night has been read. On 21 February, 68 Nobel laureates out of those Declan has emailed since 3 January had not seen their email (WITH UPDATE 9/3/2019)

I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.
- An American professor to then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone in 2010

Our Church and State website has no less than 52 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

Declan and I are still not getting emails through to Nobel laureates or even to our closest colleagues; see my updated post of 30 December 2018, Our emails now are getting through to no one, not to Nobel laureates or even our closest colleagues. Declan will keep trying to get through to Nobel laureates with the use of his mobile phone (WITH UPDATE 8/3/2019). I recorded on 21 February that 68 Nobel laureates out of those Declan has emailed since 3 January had not seen their email. No Nobel laureate who is recorded as having read Declan's email has been resent an email to date. Nonetheless, according to our email tracker, only 20 out of his 155 resends have been read (see below). Our closest colleagues have been receiving our emails erratically for over two months; in fact, we can no longer tell when, if at all, they will receive an email from either one of us. And we have just experienced Facebook's 56th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015 (the second such block last month), and, as usual, without an explanation. Despite opposition from Facebook, Church and State topped more than 3 million hits in 11 months from January to November 2017. Subsequently, Facebook's blocks against the site have gone from 47 days in 2017 to 179 days in 2018 plus 32 days this year. Nonetheless, we get hundreds of thousands of hits - over 2 million hits in 2018 despite the equivalent of 6 months of these blocks. About 70% of our hits are from Americans.

On 21 February, 68 Nobel Laureates out of those Declan has emailed since 3 January had not seen their email.

Emails resent to Nobel Laureates

21 February: 25 emails resent, 21 unread (4 read)
22 February: 27 emails resent, 23 unread (4 read)
25 February: 46 emails resent, 43 unread (3 read)
26 February: 2 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 1 unread (1 read)
1 March: 5 emails resent, 5 unread (0 read)
2 March: 5 emails resent, 4 unread (1 read)
3 March: 8 emails resent, 5 unread (3 read)
4 March: 8 emails resent, 6 unread (2 read)
5 March: 11 emails resent, 10 unread (1 read)
6 March: 8 emails resent, 7 unread (1 read)
7 March: 10 emails resent, 10 unread (0 read)

Totals: 155 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 135 unread (20 read)

No Nobel laureate who is recorded as having read Declan's email has been resent an email to date.

The above statistics do not include an email to a Nobel Laureate on 4 March confirming his listing as an Honorary Associate that went unread. This was the third time that this has happened this year.

On 6 January, the three out of eight emails to professors that were not read were to Nobel laureates. What a coincidence!

Update Summation 9 March 2019



10 emails resent to Nobel Laureates (0 read)

Totals: 165 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 145 unread (20 read)

As of 9 March at 10.11am

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Re: Email Interception

Paragraph 42 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

42. The Applicant further complains that the extent of the interference with his and his wife's emails resulted in 2011 in the shelving of the Applicant's petition to the United Nations in support of embryonic stem cell research, which had by then been signed by 29 Nobel laureates as well as hundreds of other distinguished scholars from around the world. In April 2010, an American professor wrote to Minister Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse." Despite the Minister's subsequent letter to then Home Secretary Theresa May (see para. 6 above), it is still not uncommon for the Applicant to have to make phone calls to try to get emails through to people. The Applicant has also amassed irrefutable evidence relating to problems with mail delivery (both incoming and outgoing). Most recently, in May 2017, the Applicant complained to Royal Mail about the mishandling of his and his wife's incoming mail following the loss of their employment contracts to the United States. He had repeatedly complained about mail not being put through their letter box before he received £30 in compensation from Royal Mail and an assurance from the Royal Mail Chief Executive's Office that "the actions taken will prevent this happening again".

The category pages in Church and State are under attack daily to fluctuating extent. (SiteGround is paid $1,000 per year to host the site and manage the server.) For example, as I point out in my earlier post about Royal Mail's service, all three of the articles below have over 1/2 million Facebook likes/shares, not zero. This morning the first article stands at 702K and counting, the second article at 615K and counting, and the third article at 616K.





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