An inquiry into police tactics at protests is to be set up following criticism of the handling of the G20 protests in London. Read more here
Review of protest policing ordered
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Index on Censorship
Tiananmen twenty years on
Twenty years ago this week, Chinese students began their occupation of Tiananmen Square, a protest that ended in a massacre. In an exclusive extract from the next issue of Index on Censorship, Wang Dan, a leading figure in the 1989 movement, talks...
Australian journalist deported from Fiji
Award-winning ABC journalist Sean Dorney has arrived in Australia after being deported from Fiji, as the military there cracks down on the media. Read more here
Iran: Saberi trial begins
The trial of journalist Roxana Saberi, accused of espionage, began in Tehran yesterday. Read more here
Roxana Saberi charged with spying
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been charged with espionage by the Iranian authorities. Read more here
‘Shoe thrower’ sentence reduced
Muntadar al Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist convicted after he threw a shoe at President George Bush, has had his jail sentence reduced from three years to one year. Read more here
Freedom of information when it suits
Why is British government trying to censor documents relating to the Iraq war it has already published, asks Chris Ames A new twist in the tale of Tony Blair’s Iraq dossier has exposed the blatant double standard that the government applies to...
Press Gazette to close
This is regrettable We are sorry to announce the closure of Press Gazette magazine. For 43 years Press Gazette has been the leading magazine for the UK journalism profession. Wilmington Group plc bought Press Gazette out of administration in 2006,...
Mexico: ‘crimes against journalists’ initiative
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has unanimously approved an initiative to make crimes against journalists a federal offence. The text establishes that anyone who commits an illegal action under criminal law with the objective of hindering, interfering...
Egyptian anger day
April 6 was named a day of 'anger' by Egyptian Internet users fighting the state of emergency law that prevents them from expressing themselves freely. The authorities have steadily increased the surveillance of bloggers. According to RSF, In 2008...
Argentina: free press, for now
From Raúl Alfonsín onwards, Argentina has done well to move on from the dark days of the generals. But is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's government now threatening media freedoms? Andrew Graham-Yooll reports Argentina’s five-year old Kirchner...
G20 protests: 'It was a proper siege and a breach of basic human rights'
This is a guest post by Cecilia Anesi At 9am on Wednesday, 1 April three friends and I, all freelance photographers, were already walking around the City of London ready to document the protests at the Bank of England and Bishopsgate. Until...