Books deemed critical of the state or its interests are another common target for banning.
Books that present criminal matters have also been subjected to censorship. Small-press titles that have become infamous by being banned include The Anarchist Cookbook and Hit Man.
Children's books that deal with death or other teenageangst or various crimes often find themselves challenged perhaps because of parental worries about teenage suicide or copycat crimes. Many publications are targeted on the premise that children would be corrupted by reading them. This fear led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954.
Publication delayed in UK because of anti-Stalin theme. Confiscated in Germany by Allied troops. Banned in 1946 in Yugoslavia. Also banned in Kenya in 1991 and in the United Arab Emirates in 2002.3
An injunction was issued by a U.S. District Court in Nevada under 26 U.S.C.§ 7408 against Irwin Schiff and associates Cynthia Neun and Lawrence Cohen, against the sale of this book by those persons as the court found that the information it contains is fraudulent.14
Written in 1996, claimed to be portraying intereligion occasional sex scenes involving a Christian woman and low caste-Hindu servant. Ban overturned in India.16
Banned in many places in the US. In the region of California in which it was partially set, it was banned because it made the residents of this region look bad.17
Banned in Japan (1988 - 2005) to quell "political threats to boycott Japanese cultural exports", although the pictures were not those of the original version.21
Banned in Morocco. This book is a biography of King Hassan and examines cases of torture, killing and political imprisonment said to have been carried out by the Moroccan Government.25
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On the Origins and Perpetual Use of the Legislative Powers of the Apostolic Kings of Hungary in Matters Ecclesiastical.
It was initially banned in New Zealand by Office of Film & Literature Classification since it was deemed to be objectionable.27 In May 2008 it was allowed for sale if sealed and an indication of the censorship classification was displayed. The book remains banned outright in Australia. A digital edition is available from Peacefulpill.com [6]28
Banned in UK 1985-1988 for revealing secrets. Wright was a former MI5 intelligence officer and his book was banned before it was even published in 1987.3435
Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the United States.37 Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s.citation needed
Banned in Germany for its Nazi ideology theme and Pierce leadership in the American Nazi Party. Blamed for a number of crimes allegedly inspired by the novel.38
^ See also footnote 1, United States v. Schiff, 2008-1 U.S. Tax Cas. (CCH) paragr. 50,111 (9th Cir. 2007), citing United States v. Schiff, 379 F.3d 621, 630 (9th Cir. 2004), regarding the Court's finding that the book The Federal Mafia: How the Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes constituted "fraudulent commercial speech."
^ Cleland, John; Rembar, Charles; Miller, Henry (1986). The end of obscenity: the trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of cancer, and Fanny Hill. San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-097061-8.
^ "Banned Books" (undated). Retrieved on 2008-09-06.
^ Ringelblum, Emanuel; Joseph Kermish, Shmuel Krakowski. Polish-Jewish Relations During the Second World War. Northwestern University Press, 190. ISBN 0810109638.
^ "The Online Books Page Presents BANNED BOOKS ONLINE", edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania, undated. "In 2003, Cuba jailed 75 dissidents, many of whom were involved in the US-backed 'independent library' movement, which distributes literature to interested citizens outside the state-funded library system. In the court hearing that followed, many of these dissidents were then sentenced to jail for distributing 'subversive content', which was then ordered destroyed. Among the content was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the US Constitution (both cited in the sentencing document for Pedro Argfuelles Moran and Pablo Pacheco Avila). According to Amnesty International reports, 69 prisoners of conscience remain in jail for non-violent political views and activities."
