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Remembering Lasantha Wickrematunga

Six months after the Sunday Leader editor was slain, Uvindu Kurukulasuriya looks at increasing state control of Sri Lankan media

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Ireland: blasphemy law a backward step

The government should not be creating new laws to enforce provisions written in the reactionary 1930s, says Michael Nugent

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Another victim of an archaic law

Darryn Walker has suffered unemployment and vilification for writing a pornographic story. The censorious obscenity law that allows this to happen must be scrapped, say John Ozimek and Julian Petley

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“So many people genuinely believe in the freedom of the press”

Suzanne Breen describes her battle to protect her sources from police in Northern Ireland

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Azerbaijan: new law will leave NGOs in limbo

An oppressive new set of rules on the free expression of civil society groups will put Azerbaijan on a par with its totalitarian neighbours, says Vugar Gojayev

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Girls Aloud obscenity case dropped

The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped its case against Darryn Walker, the civil servant who was facing trial under the Obscene Publications Act for writing a violent pornographic fantasy story about pop group Girls Aloud.

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Anna Politkovskaya: retrial must hear new evidence

The family of the slain journalist has called for the retrial of those accused of involvement in her murder to include a comprehensive new investigation. Maria Eismont reports

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Azerbaijan: Reading about God is dangerous

Azerbaijan has a new, harsher religion law and new penalties for producing, selling, circulating, importing and exporting religious literature without state permission, reports Felix Corley of Forum 18

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