Lawyers for Michael Napier, former President of the Law Society, have been refused an injunction by The Court of Appeal to stop Private Eye from publishing identifying details of a complaint against him. Read more here
Three Tamil doctors have been detained in Sri Lanka after they supplied local and international news media with causality figures in Vanni during the last stages of the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Read more here and here
In a turn-around decision by Burmese authorities, officials have barred international observers including journalists and diplomants from the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after allowing them to attend. Read more here
The World Press Freedom Committee provides leadership in the fight against licensing of journalists, mandatory codes of conduct, mandatory tasks for journalists and other news controls. It was originally created to wage a global struggle in and around intergovernmental organisations to beat back authoritarian proposals for a restrictive “new world information and communication order”.