British author Alan Shadrake has been sentenced to six weeks in prison and fined SGD$20,000 by a Singapore court
Alan Shadrake given six week sentence
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Index on Censorship
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”,...
Aung San Suu Kyi free!
Burmese pro-democracy activist
Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed from house arrest. Here, we republish an article first published in Index on Censorship in 1993
“Manhunt for Mbanga”
The Zimbabwean government is said to be on a “manhunt” for editor Wilf Mbanga. Here he describes the charge against him and the dire state of free expression in Zimbabwe
Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi loses appeal
The latest appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest has been rejected by Burma's top court. There is still hope that she will be released because her current detention order expires this weekend. Her youngest son has been permitted a...
Mass blog for libel reform
Simon Singh: Mass blog for libel reform
Burma: Japanese journalist deported
A Japanese journalist, who was detained while trying to slip across the Thai border, has been deported back to Thailand. Toru Yamaji, who works for the Tokyo-based AFP news agency, had been trying to cover the polling in the eastern border town...
The man who dares not say the L Word
David Cameron has extolled the virtues of human rights and democracy during his trade mission to Beijing but why won’t he raise the case of imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo?
Dinah Gardner reports
The man who dares not say the L Word
David Cameron has extolled the virtues of human rights and democracy during his trade mission to Beijing but why won't he raise the case of imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo? Dinah Goodman reports David Cameron’s first stop on his first visit to Beijing...
Iran: Journalist held in solitary confinement
The mother of journalist Nazanin Khosravani, who was arrested last week, says her daughter is being held in solitary confinement at Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Azam Afsharian told Radio Free Europe that in a short phone call Khosravani had said...
Croatia: Glas Istre journalists on strike
Journalists on Croatia's Glas Istre (Voice of Istria) newspaper have entered their third day of strike action. They are protesting against wages and work places cuts. The ownership of Glas Istre, until recently one of the few independent...