The UK government is considering new proposals that would drastically increase prison sentences for individuals and journalists found guilty of obtaining or sharing state secrets. In a bid to modernize the Official Secrets Acts, a new...
Downing Street insisted that whistleblowers and investigative journalists will not have their freedom restricted by proposals which could result in a 14-year jail sentence for revealing state secrets. Read the full article
Proposed changes to official secrets legislation would see the maximum prison sentence for journalists who obtain leaked official documents increased to 14 years. Read the full article
Whistleblowers and journalists could face up to 14 years in prison for handling leaked official documents, under proposed legislation drawn up for the Government. Read the full article
Eaten Fish (Ali Dorani), a 25-year-old Iranian cartoonist began a hunger strike on January 31 in Manus Island detention centre. He has now been on hunger strike for more than two weeks. The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) published an...
Campaigners have expressed outrage at new proposals that could lead to journalists being jailed for up to 14 years for obtaining leaked official documents. Read the full article
Proposals in the UK for a swingeing new Espionage Act that could jail journalists as spies have been developed in haste by legal advisors, The Register has learned. Read the full article
Artists are preparing go it alone at the Young Vic next month when the cast of a controversial play are reunited. Read the full article
Art dealing with “the Muslim problem” is branded “urgent”, “brave” and “provocative”. But who’s doing the provoking? Who’s getting provoked?
A play cancelled by the National Youth Theatre because of its apparent “extremist agenda” is to be given a new lease of life by its writer and director. Read the full article
TRAILBLAZING social activist and cleric, Evan Mawarire has been nominated for the prestigious 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards. Read the full article
TRAILBLAZING social activist and cleric, Evan Mawarire has been nominated for the prestigious 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards. Read the full article