Golfer Tiger Woods has gained an injunction from an English court against further reporting of his private life. Woods, 33 has been in the spotlight because of revalations of extra-marital affairs. Read more here
China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites. The State Administration of Radio Film and Television said the site BTChina did not have a license to distribute audio and video content. Another popular website, the Chinese...
A devout Christian couple have been cleared of insulting a Muslim guest at their hotel because of her faith and asking her if she was a terrorist when she wore the hijab. Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang denied using threatening, abusive or...
Jack of Kent: “England’s libel law is currently a public danger and a public disgrace”
Two Tibetan web users have been sentenced to three-year jail terms after posting pictures of the exiled Dalai Lama on the Internet. Gyaltsen and Nyima Wangdu were given three-year sentences after being convicted of "communicating information to...
“England’s libel laws are unjust, against the public interest and internationally criticised — there is urgent need for reform” this is the message performers, writers, poets, patient groups, legal experts, broadcasters, journalists and others represented by the Coalition for Libel Reform are sending to politicians.
Across the world, defamation laws are used to stifle debate and persecute individuals, writes Agnès Callamard
A journalist and councillor for the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), Tika Bista, was yesterday found in an unconscious state near her home. According to Bista's colleague Dhanbir Dahal, she had called him saying three men were following her...
Police in China have recommended that prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo be formally charged with subversion. He has been held in jail for over a year without charges and previously served 20 months for his part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests....
Claims of internet censorship have spread amongst the Russian blogosphere after the wireless internet service provider, Yota, admitted blocking access to certain websites. Denis Sverdlov, chief executive of WiMax operator Skartel, which runs the...
Jenni Hulse: Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill is a serious threat to freedom of expression
The Australian government has been accused of censorship after it refused visas to five North Korean artists invited to attend a rare exhibition of their work in Queensland. Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has denied the men visas,...