Trainee accountant found guilty of sending “menacing” messages over Twitter, is to attempt to appeal his conviction before the High Court
Paul Chambers to appeal Twitter joke verdict in High Court
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Chinese activist sentenced to year in labour camp for Twitter joke
Wangyi09’s twitter feed stops abruptly at 7:45AM on October 28. According to human rights groups, the Chinese rights activist, whose real name is Cheng Jianping, was detained later that day for a satirical tweet she had posted on October 17 which...
PAST EVENT: Index on Censorship and the Young Vic present “Belarus: Zone of Silence”
Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Sienna Miller and Samuel West take to the stage in support of the Belarus Free Theatre 5 December. Young Vic, London
Facebook, Yahoo!, AOL, Mumsnet and the ISPA to David Cameron: libel reform needed to protect free speech online
Facebook, Yahoo!, AOL (UK), Mumsnet and the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) have written an open letter to the Prime Minister David Cameron calling for urgent reform of our libel laws.
Index on Censorship responds to Julian Assange allegations
A Swedish prosecutor today requested that Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks whistleblower website, be detained for interrogation concerning a re-opened sexual assault investigation. The application could lead to an international arrest warrant
Mexico: Reporters beaten by hotel guards
A reporter and a photographer were hospitalised following a brutal beating by guards at the Princess Hotel (Playa del Carmen). An explosion had just occurred in the popular tourist resort, causing seven deaths and 17 injuries. The two reporters...
Fitwatch closure illustrates threat to free speech
The ease with which the Metropolitan Police closed down the activist site is worrying, says Val Swain
Alphabet soup spells “Donald”
Take that star Howard Donald has seen a super-injunction against an ex-girlfriend lifted. Is this another nail in the coffin for these restrictive measures, asks Mark Lewis
Morocco: Reporter expelled from besieged city of Laayoune
Journalist Guillaume Bontoux, working for the Spanish Radio Exterior, has landed in Gran Canaria last night after having been detained and interrogated by the police in Laayoune, West Sahara, for several hours. The journalist asserted to have...
Alan Shadrake given six week sentence
British author Alan Shadrake has been sentenced to six weeks in prison and fined SGD$20,000 by a Singapore court
Alibhai-Brown will not press charges in Twitter case
Columnist and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has said she will not press charges against Birmingham councillor Graham Compton. Compton had tweeted suggesting that someone should stone the Ugandan-born Muslim journalist. He had been listening to...
Turkey: PM Erdogan files lawsuit against Hürriyet
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a €50,000 lawsuit against the newspaper Hürriyet and its editor-in-chief, Oktay Eksi. On 28 October, the newspaper ran a column entitled: “We have not been as critical as we should have been”,...