Saad Mustafa: Burning the Koran: Freedom of expression?
Burning the Koran: Freedom of expression?
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Index on Censorship
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
Burqa ban will not protect women
Proposed bans on face coverings are a reflection not on Islam, but on European insecurity, says Myriam Francois-Cerrah
BNP Koran burning charge dropped
A Public Order Act charge against British National Party member Sion Owens, who was arrested over the weekend for burning a copy of the Koran in his garden and posting a video of the act on the internet, was dropped this morning. Owens had been...
TRIPWIRES: remix the debate
TRIPWIRES youth programme explores what free speech means for young people.
Julia Farrington explains