Censorship by the Oxford University or by Dirk Obbink’s law team?

On 16 April Lois Helsop at The Oxford Blue broke the news of that Thames Valley police had arrested American papyrologist Dr. Dirk Obbink, an associate professor in papyrology and Greek literature at Oxford University, on 2 March 2020. ARCA, as well as prominent news outlets, picked up on this news notice, and in our case, linked back to Helsop’s original article and directed our readers also to earlier ARCA postings (see this running thread) of this professor and the buying and selling of ancient texts.

Professor Obbink has been the focus of much journalistic attention regarding the unauthorised sale of papyrus from the Oxyrhynchus collection, which is owned by the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) and housed at Oxford’s Sackler Library, pieces of which were discovered to have been purchased by the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.