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Pro-russiske demonstranter i Ukraina har blant annet brent ukrainske bøker.

Ministry of Justice i Storbritannia har forandret regelverket på en måte som gjør at innsatte ikke kan få tilsendt bøker fra utsiden:

Calling the rules a "malign and pointless extra punishment, which is not only malign and small-minded but desperately counterproductive", Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, has begun a mission to get "every writer in the UK publicly opposed to this by tea time".

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Crook said this morning that she was "very pleased" to see the amount of support her piece had generated. "Because of overall cuts in prison resources it means people are locked in cells from Friday lunchtime to Monday morning, and during the week they are locked up for 20 hours a day. If you are stuck in a cell the size of a small lavatory – which includes a lavatory – you can watch television or read a book – there's nothing much else you can do," she said. "So reading is literally a lifeline and a lifesaver for some people."

Of course there are prison libraries, but "1,600 prisoners with one small library will only get there once every two to three weeks, if they are lucky, and they are only able to take a limited number of books out," said Crook. "Also, prisoners might have a particular interest, like trains or bird watching or foreign languages, and a small prison library wouldn't have books for their interests."

The ban, she said, is "bizarre, and nasty … and is having a real effect on people's lives".