South Korea has begun blocking access to a Twitter account opened by a North Korean website. The blocking appears to be aimed solely at @Uriminzok Twitter account's main page address, which has provided North Korea with a platform for propaganda...
Emily Butselaar: Blair memoirs censorship row
The video-sharing website has wrongly barred Iranians from its documentary experiment, Life in a Day, because of US sanctions.
Negar Esfandiary reports
Dissident Yu Jie is ignoring threats of prison to publish a book describing Premier Wen Jiabao as “China’s best actor”.
Dinah Gardner reports
The whistleblowers’ website goes mainstream — reconfiguring ideas of journalism, transparency, openness and security in the internet age. Jillian C York reports
Blogger and political activist Johanna Kaschke has had her libel case against fellow blogger’s John Gray and Alex Hilton struck out today
The US senate last night passed legislation to protect US journalists, writers and publishers from “libel tourists” – litigants who sue Americans in foreign jurisdictions which place a lower emphasis on free speech
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Protesters at London’s Democracy Village have lost their appeal against eviction from Parliament Square. Index witnessed their response to their last eviction deadline and watched events unfold Parliament Square came to a standstill on 2 July,...
As secret files reveal the UK’s role in abuse and torture, Richard Norton-Taylor addresses Labour’s legacy of secrets, spin and cover-up
It was the most iconic image of the second intifada: the killing of a Palestinian child. Ten years on, French libel courts are still settling disputes about what really happened at the Netzarim crossroads. Natasha Lehrer reports
The government’s announcement today brings forward the first attempt at wholesale libel law reform in over a century
China confirms it has renewed Google's internet licence. Making the announcement on Google's company blog, chief legal officer David Drummond said: We are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP licence and we look forward to...