Hundreds of political workers in Pakistan have been arrested ahead of a nationwide march due to take place on Thursday. Spearheaded by opposition leader Nazwar Sharif, the march is being coordinated to start at different cities throughout the...
This is a guest post by Chris Ames Gordon Brown is pushing ahead with plans for a new parliamentary committee on national security, sparking criticism that he is trying to avoid genuine democratic accountability. As existing backbench committees...
Journalist Jawed Ahmad was gunned down by two men while getting out of his car in the southern city of Kandahar yesterday. Ahmad, who worked for Canadian Media channel CTV News, was arrested in 2007 by the US military for contacting the Taliban and...
We must do everything in our power to secure the release of the young Afghan journalist, says Padraig Reidy News is emerging that Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, the young Afghan journalist who appealed a death sentence for blasphemy handed down last year...
This is a guest post by Peter Noorlander The European Court of Human Rights today handed down its judgment in the case of Times Newspapers Ltd (Nos. 1 and 2) v. the United Kingdom, which concerned the question of the application of the UK's libel...
The al Jazeera bureau in Gaza City had a bomb left outside its office doors on 7 March. They station received a warning call at 7.30pm. Personnel were immediately evacuated and informed Palestinian police, who were able to defuse the device. Read...
Disturbing news from Afghanistan. Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, the young journalist whose death sentence for 'blasphemy', passed in a four-minute trial in Mazar-i-Sharif, provoked international outrage last year, has apparently been sentenced to 20...
Human rights groups are urging Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft not to become complicit in Internet censorship, declaring 12 March World Day Against Cyber Censorship. Read more here
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the detention of Sri Lankan journalist JS Tissainayagam. The first journalist to be charged under the country's Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), Tissainaygam was arrested on 7 March 2008, accused of...
Over at Liberty Central, coinciding with the imminent launch of Index on Censorship's new issue on obscenity, Mediawatch's John Beyer and Index on Censorship regular Julian Petley are debating Britain's obscenity laws. Are they obscure? Are they...
My history book is the latest victim of the Kremlin's attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet Union, says Orlando Figes Yesterday, the Moscow publishing house Atticus Group (Inostranka) cancelled a contract to publish my latest book in Russia. The...
The United States has followed Canada and Israel in boycotting a UN conference on 'anti-racism' to be held later this year in Geneva. A State Department spokesman cited US difficulties with attempts at the conference to equate Zionism with racism,...