Jean Ramses Anleu Fernández, the Guatemalan I.T. worker arrested for expressing critical opinion via his Twitter profile (username Jeanfer) regarding the banking scandal taking place in the country this week, has been released from jail and is now...
A statement by Asean --- a 10-nation grouping that includes Burma --- expressed "grave concern" over the trial of Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, saying that as a member Burma "has the responsibility to protect and promote human...
The Burmese authorities are keeping tight control on coverage of Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial, reports Nem Davies Burma's state-controlled media has neglected to report on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her ongoing trial, in stark contrast to the attention...
China's Lou Ye and Iran's Bahman Ghobadi are both at Cannes Film Festival with movies made undercover after they were barred from working by the authorities at home. " Read more here and here
Index on Censorship at Queer Up North festival
With the media in decline, we shouldn't assume that news journalism will survive No one –-- in particular nobody who’s paying attention to the work of Index on Censorship –-- doubts the dangers inherent in the deliberate suppression of information....
Dissident journalist Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet, a reporter for the Habana Press news agency, has been sentenced to three years in prison on the charge of “disrespect for authority.” Read more here
Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has gone on trial at the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon following breaking the conditions of her nineteen year house arrest. Many observers see the charges as a pretext to ensure Ms Suu Kyi is in jail...
As the divide narrows between left and right in Britain, so too does the space for adversarial dialogue and free expression There used to be an inch of difference between the two main British political parties. But, as the Australian 1960s radical...
Guatemalan tweeter Jean Anleau (http://twitter.com/jeanfer) has been arrested for causing 'financial panic'. Anleau had suggested in a tweet that Guatemalans should fight corruption by withdrawing all their money from banks. Read more here
Manchester film maker, David Whitney, has fled Pakistan after being attacked. Whitney had been shooting a film about Taliban rule in Afghanistan when his team was shot at just outside Quetta, near the Afghan border. The crew escaped without serious...
Justice secretary Jack Straw has announced the government will not go ahead with plans for non-jury private inquests to cover cases involving "sensitive information". Read more here