Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam has been on hunger strike for four days protesting his continued detainment by US forces in Iraq. Media watchdogs have urged Iraq’s government to end harassment and intimidation of journalists and are pushing for his release. Read more here
A UK artist, Michael Dickinson who was cleared in September of mocking Turkey’s prime minister by portraying him as a dog in a piece of artwork has fled the country after hearing his acquittal has been overturned. Read more here
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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Democratic Unionist Party politician Ian Paisley Jr has been ordered to pay a fine for contempt of court after his refusal to reveal the name of a prison officer who informed him of the destruction of files after the murder of loyalist paramilitary Billy Wright at the Maze prison in 1997.
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