Lord Lester at the Joint Committee on the Defamation Bill
Lord Lester at the Joint Committee on the Defamation Bill
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Index on Censorship
Sri Lanka: Journalist arrested for defaming court
Police on Monday (25 April) arrested a journalist working for the independent website, Lanka eNews. Shantha Wijeysooria was arrested at the website’s offices in Colombo for alleged contempt of court. The charges relate to an April 19 article which...
Andrew Marr abandons superinjunction
Index on Censorship welcomes broadcaster Andrew Marr’s decision to abandon the superinjunction that prevented the press from reporting on details of his private life.
Burning the Koran: Freedom of expression?
Saad Mustafa: Burning the Koran: Freedom of expression?
The Digital Economy Act: What next?
The fight for online rights in the UK is far from over, argues Peter Bradwell
The Road to Rejuvenation
Ten years in the making and with a price tag of US$400m, the freshly-opened National Museum of China on the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square may be the world’s biggest museum. Unarguably grand architecturally, its permanent exhibition on China’s...
Ditching the Y-word
As a new campaign targets anti-Semitism in football, Brian Glanville asks if getting Tottenham fans to ditch the self-referential “Yid Army” chant will solve anything
Bahrain’s brutal crackdown
As Bahraini soldiers — aided by foreign troops — crush protests, youth activist Mohammed Al-Maskati whose family have been detained, asks the international community to speak out
Azerbaijan: Swedish TV crew arrested then deported
Azerbaijani officials detained three Swedish TV journalists while they were preparing to cover an opposition demonstration in Baku on 17 April. The journalists were subsequently deported on 18 April. An official at the Interior Ministry commented...
Ai Weiwei’s wife, Lu Qing, is “very worried”
The Chinese authorities detained dissident artist Ai Weiwei more than a week ago. Yesterday, Ai’s wife Lu Qing, also an artist, spoke to Justin Webb on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme about her husband’s arrest, saying that they have no reason to...
Egypt: blogger given three-year jail sentence for criticising military
Maikel Nabil, a 26-year old blogger, has been sentenced to three years in jail for writing a negative article about the Egyptian armed forces. Mr. Nabil was arrested last month after publishing a blog in which he criticised the army’s role during...
Singer Lapiro de Mbanga released from prison
Singer Lapiro de Mbanga released from prison