Shoot the messenger
Attacks on human rights representatives at the UN Human Rights Council are part of a campaign to undermine freedom of expression, says Roy W Brown
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President of Ecuador threatens media
During his weekly radio broadcast President Rafael Correa accused media outlets of committing “abuses” and “distorting” information arguing that the media had been manipulating citizens’ opinion and has threatened they will face legal action. Read more here
Gordon Ramsay rebuked by Australian Prime Minister
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described TV chef Gordon Ramsay as “a new form of low life” after the chef showed a food-fair audience a photo of a nude woman on all fours, with multiple breasts and a pig’s face, and said the image was of popular Australian television journalist Tracy Grimshaw. Read more here
Shell pays out in Saro-Wiwa murder settlement
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed a $15.5 million (£9.7million) out-of-court settlement in a case accusing it of complicity in human rights abuses in Nigeria including the hanging of anti-oil campaigner and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. Read more here