Index on Censorship has learned that government lawyers are attempting to submit secret evidence on the treatment of former Guantanamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, as the Foreign Office continues to attempt to prevent the release of potentially damning information about his detention.
The Obama regime may be reaching out to Raúl Castro, but it is unlikely any real reform will emerge for ordinary Cubans, writes Ena Lucía Portela The recent surprise dismissals of a number of well-known apparatchiks of the Castro regime, including...
Carol Ann Duffy, whose poem 'Education for Leisure' was withdrawn from schoolbooks over fears it encouraged violence, has been appointed the UK's first female poet laureate. Read more here
The Ministry of Justice was more concerned with spinning the 'Titan prisons' controversy than complying with its own Freedom of Information Act, says Chris Ames Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been caught up in a new spin row after attempts to...
The Times/Matrix Chambers debate on privacy
Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has defended a proposal to introduce new legislation on blasphemy. Read more here
The Irish government's plan to introduce blasphemy legislation may seem a retrograde step, but it is part of a broader global trend, writes Padraig Reidy In March of this year, a young Afghan journalist, Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, was sentenced to 20...
The US government's policy of fining broadcasters over the use of swear words on live TV is justified, the Supreme Court has ruled. Read more here
French politicians have rejected a bill proposing that people caught downloading music illegally three times should be cut off from the Internet. Read more here
A group of singers from the Israel Defence Forces has become embroiled in a censorship row after their performance in London was cancelled over fears the content was 'political'. Read more here
Only the powerful benefit from a muzzled media. A free, sometimes scurrilous press is what keeps the spirit of inquiry alive says Sir Ken Macdonald QC After Richard Desmond's cruel and inexcusable campaign against Kate and Gerry McCann, most people...
Thirty years on, the Williams Committee Report still provides a better framework for film classification than the lamentable Obscene Publications Act, says Julian Petley Thirty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Bernard Williams produced...