In past month many Iranian journalists and bloggers have been released on bail by authorities before the start of the Iranian New Year. Those currently on bail include Sasan Aghaei, Ali Moazemi, Kivan Farzin, Behrangh Tonkaboni, Arvin Sedaghat...
Plans for a mandatory ISP-level filtering system for internet users in Australia has come under attack from leading business giants such as Google, Yahoo as well as the US government. US State Department spokesperson Michael Tran stated that they...
Italy’s continued investment in Belarus masks the free speech abuses that plague the country’s media. Cecilia Anesi reports
Plus: Berlusconi Under Investigation
and Berlusconi’s gag has “turned into a megaphone
Maziar Bahari was imprisoned by the Iranian regime for attempting to report on 2009’s disputed election. He describes his ordeal, and suggests what can be done to help journalists jailed by the Islamic Republic
Former speaker Michael Martin has reportedly withdrawn a motion seeking to block reform of Conditional Fee Arrangements in libel cases. Read more here
The Justice Secretary has committed the government to changing English defamation law. Index on Censorship reports
Libel Reform Campaign welcomes Jack Straw’s commitment to change – asks will Cameron commit?
Let your MP know about the threat to free expression from English libel law and join us at the House of Commons on Tuesday 23rd at 2pm
Silvio Berlusconi’s schemes to gag dissenting voices seem to have been revealed in a series of intercepted phone calls. But it may be too late to redress the balance, says Giulio D’Eramo
Reports are reaching Index on Censorship that the office of Charter 97, the Belarusian democracy campaigning organisation, has been raided by authorities. Computers and other equipment have been seized and Head of Press Natalia Radzina is believed...
Our special report explores how the internet not only makes it possible for authoritarian regimes to monitor citizens’ activities as never before, but also makes censorship acceptable, and even respectable, in democracies.
UK-based Russian businessman Boris Berezovky has been awarded £150,000 by the high court in a libel case against Russian TV channel RTR Planeta, which claimed he was complicit in the death of Alexander Litvinenko. RTR Planeta boycotted the trial....
Michael Foot was not only a principled politician, writes Paul Anderson. The former Labour party leader was a passionate journalist and a lifelong defender of free expression