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WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 Newspaper post EDITORIAL • PAGE 9 WEDNESDAY • 16 MAY 2018 • ISSUE 587 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Constable grievously injured in hit-and-run by underage driver PAGE 2 ANALYSIS AFTER THE PN GENERAL COUNCIL ADRIAN DELIA'S BRAND: 'MOTHER MALTA' PGS 6-7 THE European Court of Human Rights has overturned a decision by Malta's court of magistrates as well as the Con- stitutional Court, that had upheld the ban of a controversial theatrical pro- duction by the now-defunct film and theatre classification board. The ban on Stitching, a play by An- thony Neilson and produced by Uni- faun Theatre, will finally be staged nine years since the censorship board's momentous decision to stop the play. It effectively signed its own death sen- tence, leading to an overhaul of the classification system by the PN govern- ment in 2012 and finally the wholesale removal of arts censorship by the La- bour government. The ban also cost the Maltese govern- ment €20,000 in legal costs and dam- ages for breach of the European Convention of Human Rights. Human Rights court tells Malta: wrong to ban Neilson's 'Stitching' Seven years after controversial ban, Strasbourg court says ban on theatre production breached freedom of expression MARIA PACE A police constable, Simon Schembri, was seriously injured yesterday morn- ing when he was run over by a car driven by a 17-year-old man. The incident happened close to the roundabout near Lidl supermarket in Triq Hal Qormi in Luqa at 7:40am. According to a police statement, Schembri, 48, tried to stop the young driver to ask for his driving licence and related documentation. This prompted the driver to try to escape, hitting the constable in the process and dragging him for several metres. 'Ethnic cleansing': former Labour minister George Vella on Israel's occupation of Gaza PAGE 3 48-year-old constable Simon Schembri was seriously injured after being run over by underage driver PAGE 3 The 70th anniversary of the exodus of over 700,000 Palestinian refugees following the 1948 Arab-Israeli was marked yesterday