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No sign of Ai Weiwei day after airport arrest
Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has joined the ranks of other dissidents who have irked the government. He has simply gone missing. Dinah Gardner reports.
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No sign of Ai Weiwei day after airport arrest
Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has joined the ranks of other dissidents who have irked the government. He has simply gone missing. Police detained Ai at Beijing Airport on Sunday, as he was en route to Hong Kong. His Beijing studio was also...
PCC paid solicitor £20,000 libel damages
The Press Complaints Commission paid solicitor Mark Lewis £20,000 in damages after he brought a libel action against chair Baroness Buscombe, it has been reported. Buscombe had alleged that Lewis had misled the the Culture, Media and Sport Select...
Syria: Two Reuters reporters missing
Reuters has announced that two of their reporters are missing in Syria. Jordanian correspondent, Suleiman al Khalidi, was detainted by the Syrian authorities on Tuesday, while Syrian photographer, Khaled al Hariri, has been out of contact since...
Polish journalist faces prosecution in Belarus
Belarusian authorities have filed charges against journalist Andrzej Poczobut. Poczobut works for the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. He is charged with insulting the Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in articles that were published in...
Jude Law and Kevin Spacey bring drama to the Commons
After a performance in the House of Commons in support of Belarus’s imprisoned opposition activists and journalists, Denis MacShane warns the leaders of Europe’s last dictatorship that justice plays a long game
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A wife’s appeal for dignity
The fear comes in not knowing. This is something Geng He, the wife of Gao Zhisheng, a Chinese rights lawyer who disappeared on April 10 last year, well knows. Geng wrote a touching appeal in the New York Times today calling attention to her...
Wilmshurst hit with fresh libel suit
Cardiologist Peter Wilmshurst is facing a fourth libel suit from medical instrument firm NMT. The case relates to the writ NMT issued on 26th Nov 2010 about Peter's interview on the Today programme on 27 Nov 2009.
Howard Jacobson speaks out for scepticism
The Booker prize winning novelist’s keynote address at the 11th Annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards
Gao Zhisheng awarded Bindmans Law and Campaigning prize
Video: The human rights lawyer’s wife, Geng He, accepted the award on his behalf in a video shown at tonight’s Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression awards, sponsored by SAGE