But what about the broader question, of whether Mr Kelly was right to speak out?

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She was campaigning as she died, in Italy, for the right to speak out against the Mafia.

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This appeal has never been about money, but about protecting the children in my care and my right to speak out about what I witnessed at school that day.

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Nasa officials eventually issued a statement underlining the right of scientists to speak out without restriction.

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"This was an attack on my, and the SDLP's, right to represent and speak out for a better Belfast and reconciled Northern Ireland, " she said.

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But Polly Toynbee, president of the British Humanists' Association, insisted it was only right that the archbishops should be able to speak out.

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Nobody seems to know what the right thing to say is anymore and it could be that point which prevents people stepping forward to speak out.

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