US resolution condemning the 1915 Armenian genocide gives Turkey a chance to disavow a grotesque state crime and abandon its hideous charade says Nouritza Matossian
US Armenian ‘genocide’ vote a chance for Turkey
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Emily Butselaar
Jack Straw cuts “success fees”
Index on Censorship today welcomes the Justice Secretary’s decision to cut lawyers’ fees dramatically in ‘no win no fee’ defamation cases, but warns that costs are only one part of a libel system in need of serious reform
Binyam Mohamed: full judgment revealed
Padraig Reidy: A court ruled today that the full draft judgment of its ruling on the case of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, including sections the Foreign Secretary had attempted to suppress, should be published
Expert view: MPs’ report on press standards, privacy and libel
Alan Rusbridger, Camilla Wright, Emily Bell, Lord Lester QC and Charmian Gooch react to the press select committee’s recommendations
John Kampfner: MPs’ report delivers a boost to libel reformers
Jo Glanville: Backing for real press freedom
WordPress buckles under legal pressure
Emily Butselaar: Wordpress buckles under legal threat
GE Healthcare drops Thomsen libel suit
Drug firm GE Healthcare has dropped its libel suit against Danish doctor Henrik Thomsen, who had criticised the company's product, Omniscan. Read more here
PCC rejects Stephen Gately complaint
The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed a complaint by Stephen Gately’s partner about a Daily Mail column on the Boyzone singer’s death. The watchdog argued reprimanding Jan Moir for the beliefs expressed in her article ‘would be a slide towards censorship’
Iran must open door to UN human rights experts
Campaign groups call on Iran to reconsider after envoy reverses its position and withdraws invite to UN human rights experts
Russia: FSB press office licenced to spy
Russia’s Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, has granted the same office that responds to journalists requests licence to search their homes, wiretap them and place them under surveillance, reveals Andrei Soldatov
Guardian round table examines Libel Reform
Emily Butselaar: Guardian round table examines Libel Reform
Freedom is not a luxury
Michael Scammell, founding editor of Index on Censorship, recalls the role of Stephen Spender in the birth of the magazine
Open letter to Ayatollah Khamenei
On the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Index on Censorship and international free speech campaigners call on Iran to release the more than 60 writers, journalists, and bloggers currently in prison
PLUS: Maziar Bahari calls on the regime to let his colleagues go