yes but we don't know the frequency of these letters ...it could have been only a couple. and if that is the case no one is forcing them to read the letters. think about it. they could simply throw them away and ignore them...note that i'm not condoning the letters, but the threat of imprisonment and police over what could only be a couple of easily ignored is a bit much

Hi Steel,as you say. When John Worsley received the envelope he could've simply binned it, thats what I've been doing for the past few years. I am sick and tired of the junk mail that I receive everyday,this has been disturbing and harassing me for a very long time. When I read the Sheikh's story "7 years for sending mail", I was wandering if I could ask the police to charge those businesses for harassment too? Because as Bugsy says, " there's a fine line between freedom of expression and harassment". The 7 years charge is not about the 3 letters that have already been sent to John Worsley. It says on the website the warning of the police is about any future letters to John Worsley. It means Sheikh Haron has not been charged for any letter that has already been sent. But he will be charged if he sends one more letter. By sending the fourth letter he will be charged no matter what the frequency of the letter will be. So its got nothing to do with frequency. Below are the links of the past three letters.
1. http://www.sheikhharon.com/letter-of-sheikh-haron-to-Mr.%20John%20Worsley%2025%20November%202007.htm
2. http://www.sheikhharon.com/second-letter-of-sheikh-haron-to-mr-john-worsley-father-of-australian-soldier-12-december-2007.pdf
3. http://www.sheikhharon.com/media-releases-folder/third-letter-of-sheikh-haron-to-john-worsley-19-march-2008.htm

That is as it should be then Bright1.

If you stuck a sign on your letterbox warning junk mailers not to place junkmail in your letterbox, then you have every right to take them to court if they continue. It has been done before.

If you request to be taken off a particular mailing list because you feel harassed, the you have every right to take a business or organisation to court if they fail or refuse to comply. Just because you have not done so does not not mean you cannot do so.

This is an extension of those principles. This situation has nothing to do with "freedom of speech", and harassers right to it.

Freedom of expression surely involves responsibilities as well as rights