The Guardian has lost a high court challenge to lift an emergency gagging order imposed on the publication of Barclays bank documents alleged to detail huge tax avoidance schemes. A sheaf of seven internal memos stolen by a former employee were...
Australia has blacklisted a webpage from the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks containing an index of URLs censored by Danish authorities. The Australian Communications and Media Authority added two Wikileaks pages to its censorship list: one for the...
The ‘religion’ section in Egyptian national identity cards may now be left blank, after a court ruling on 16 March. Computerised ID cards were introduced in 1995, and forced people to identify themselves with one of the three main religions: Islam,...
Index on Censorship Chief Executive John Kampfner was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Front Row recently, discussing the last years of the Eastern Bloc. You can listen to the show here
Index on Censorship today announces the shortlist for the 2009 Freedom of Expression Awards. The awards, presented in association with the Economist, the Guardian, Bindmans and the Robert Gavron Trust, honour those who have furthered the cause of...
Journalist Abdulkarim Al Khaiwani has been pardoned again by President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Al Khaiwani had already been pardoned last September after being sentenced to six months in prison on a charge of ‘collaboration with the rebellion in the...
A senior editor of the Wall Street Journal is being taken to court by the Singapore government. On Friday 13 March a High Court judge granted an application by the Attorney-General to start proceedings against Melanie Kirkpatrick for “actions which...
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As the first prosecution of the written word in more than 30 years takes place in the UK, Index assesses the landscape of obscenity.
The crackdown on the lawyers protest is another sign of a regime on the brink of collapse, says Zubeida Mustafa Even before the lawyers’ ‘long march’ in Pakistan got off the ground on Thursday, the crackdown had begun. A century-old colonial law...
This is a guest post by Chris Ames The new revelations about Tony Blair’s Iraq dossier are pretty devastating. Emails revealed intelligence experts veering from despondency about exaggerated claims to black humour about Doctor Frankenstein while...
Muntazer al Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who sparked headlines worldwide after throwing his shoe at George Bush, has been sentenced to three years in prison. Read more here