A financial blogger, Park Dae-sung, known online as Minerva, accused of spreading false information on the internet has walked free from court in South Korea. The "innocent" verdict is being seen as a victory for freedom of speech. Read more here
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Israel of being the 'most cruel and racist regime', sparking a walkout by angry Western diplomats at the UN Durban II conference on racism. Read more here
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to Tehran's prosecutor calling for 'fair investigations' in the cases of journalist Roxana Saberi and blogger Hossein Derakhshan. Derakhshan, also known as 'Hoder', is shortlisted for the Economist...
Sri Lankan newspaper the Sunday Leader has been nominated for the Guardian Journalism award at the 2009 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards. The awards will be presented on 21 April in London. In advance of the awards ceremony, Sunday...
This is a guest post by Jameel Jaffer Last week the Obama administration released four legal memos that supplied the basis for the Bush administration's torture programme. The memos, which were disclosed in response to a lawsuit that the American...
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment after being found guilty of spying for the US by a Tehran court. Read more here
The conviction of the Pirate Bay Four is not just a breach of the right to free expression, says Sean Dodson, it’s an absurdity in an era when free online content seems the only way forward for the entertainment industry In this increasingly...
President Barack Obama has released four top-secret memos detailing US torture techniques. Read more here
Four men behind Swedish file-sharing site Pirate Bay have been found guilty of copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in jail. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, were also ordered to pay 30m kronor...
Conservative MP Damian Green and civil servant Christopher Galley will not face charges relating to leaks of government documents after Director of Public Prosecutions Kier Starmer QC found that the leaks did not endanger security. Read more here
The Supreme Court of Indonesia has overturned a £62 million libel ruling against Time magazine relating to claims that the late President Suharto had amassed a fortune through corruption. Index on Censorship and other media organisations and NGOs...
Controversy still rages over police handling of G20 protesters. As an inquiry into policing of demonstrations is launched, Liberty's Bridget Beale looks at how a vital part of democracy can be safeguarded A strong, healthy democracy depends --- at...