Matthew Parris, one of Britain’s most renowned newspaper columnists, has been appointed a trustee of Index on Censorship, the UK’s leading organisation promoting freedom of expression. And, in an exciting week for free speech in the UK, musical...
An alleged assault on Generación Y’s Yoani Sánchez demonstrates the Castro regime’s fear of free expression on the web. Nick Caistor reports
An Iranian Odyssey: Mossadegh, Oil and the 1953 CIA Coup: 19 November 2009
Matt Malone: in the country’s simmering civil conflicts, reporters are under pressure from all sides
Moldova's Prosecutor General Office has dropped criminal proceedings against the people accused of using social networking websites to organise violent street protests in Chisinau in April, following the ppposition protest against the results of...
Hamas officials prevented journalists in Gaza from participating in a meeting on 10 November. The reporters were due to attend a meeting organised by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). However, the venue turned the journalists away...
Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court has dismissed a case for the repeal of criminal and seditious libel brought by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ). Provisions in the 1965 Public Order Act stipulate prison terms for journalists found...
Bloggers Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli were sentenced on 11 November to two years and two-and-a-half years in prison respectively. Human rights groups and analysts believe the sentences are politically motivated, and that the they were sentenced on...
Simon Singh speaks at Index on Censorship and English PEN’s libel reform campaign launch
Secret inquiries seriously undermine the principle of open justice, says
Daniel Machover
O'Brien Rwafa, Jacob Phiri and Freedom Moyo, employees of state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH), were suspended from their positions for ten days. The three men were accused of leaking information about a government directive...
English PEN and Index on Censorship‘s report, Free Speech is not for sale, has attracted coverage from a broad range of media