Calls to ban the far-right BNP from the BBC’s Question Time can only harm democracy, says Salil Tripathi
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Kambakhsh freed after Karzai pardon
Afghan student Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh has been freed from prison after he was secretly pardon by Afghanistan's President Karzai. Kambakhsh was sentenced to death, commuted to imprisonment, after he was accused of circulating an article that...
Death in El Salvador
The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda in El Salvador represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding, writes Deborah Bonello
Gambian journalists pardoned
Six journalists imprisoned for sedition in Gambia have been pardoned by President Jammeh. Read more here
Khalid bin Mahfouz dead at 60
Billionaire Saudi banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, best known in Britain for a series of libel suits and legal threats against reporters and authors who connected his businesses with terror funding, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60. Read more...
Stalin’s grandson sues Novaya gazeta
The grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, is suing Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta for £200,000 over a story about declassified secret documents reportedly signed by Stalin, which ordered the execution of Soviet citizens....
Court orders new Politkovskaya probe
The Supreme Court in Moscow has ordered a new investigation into the murder of Novaya gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya. The outspoken critic of Russia's actions in Chechnya was murdered in October 2006. Read more here
Information Commissioner calls for tough sentences for privacy breaches
Christopher Graham says his office has been “let down by MPs”. Index on Censorship reports
Tissa sentence: the message to journalists is loud and clear
Lal Wickrematunge says the 20-year sentence handed to JS Tissainayagam is a warning to the Sri Lanka’s already embattled media
Sri Lanka: Tissainayagam given 20 years hard labour
Sri Lankan journalist JS Tissainayagam has been sentenced to 20 years hard labout by a Colombo court after he was found guilty of causing "racial hatred". Tissainayagam had been critical of the government's conduct in the war against the Tamil...
Second investigator on reporter murder case killed
Pablo Pasillas Fong, the lead federal investigator in the case of journalist murdered journalist Armando Rodríguez has been killed. He is the second investigator to be murdered in the past month. Fong was shot 13 times on 26 August in the streets...