A police lieutenant who forcibly took a cameraman’s camera, threw it to the ground and then shot it six times has been found guilty of aggressive behaviour. Read more here
Brazil: police lieutenant shoots camera.
read more
Index on Censorship
'Put simply, Christians won't tolerate insults to Jesus Christ'
Stephen Green of Christian Voice managed to get a poetry reading shut down this week. Waterstones of Cardiff cancelled the launch of Patrick Jones's Darkness is Where the Stars Are after threats of disruption from the fundamentalist Christian....
Plane Stupid: doors and perception
It didn't take District Judge Nicholas Evans long to come up with a verdict in the case of the five Plane Stupid protesters charged under SOCPA this morning. All were found guilty and four ordered to pay a fine and costs totalling £365. The...
Climate change protesters guilty
Five climate change protesters who climbed on to the roof of the Palace of Westminster have been found guilty of trespass under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA). Leo Murray, Olivia Chessell, Alexander George, Tamsin Omond and...
Pakistani journalist gunned down
Quari Muhammad Shoaib, reporter with the local newspaper Khabar Kar, was shot dead in the Swat Valley by soldiers while driving home in his car on 8 November. Read more here
Blogger sentenced to 20 years
Nay Phone Latt, a pro-democracy blogger in Burma has been given a 20-year prison sentence for materials posted on his website criticising military leader Than Shwe. He was arrested in January, along with poet Saw Wai, who was sentenced to 2 years...
Unnecessary secrets
Further restrictions on reporting of security issues would be disastrous and misguided, writes David Davis Calls for unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, reported on the front page...
Iran: reformist weekly shut down
Shahvrand-e Emrouz ('Today’s Citizen'), an Iranian reformist magazine, has been temporarily closed by the country’s press watchdog after the unauthorised publication of political content. The magazine had been critical of the present...
Private lives
Privacy cases in the UK continue to pose a significant challenge to press freedom, says Gavin Millar No one would describe coverage of Max Mosley’s subterranean trysts or Sienna Miller’s cleavage as cutting-edge investigative journalism. But Mosley...
Raja Petra released
Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin has been released from jail after a court ruled that the interior minister, Syed Hamid Albar, had overstepped his authority in ordering the detention of Kamaruddin under the country's notorious Internal...
Sudan: hunger strike against censorship
More than 150 Sudanese journalists took part 24-hour hunger strike on 4 November. Three national newspapers have also joined the protest, halting their production for three days. They were protesting against censorship by state security services on...
An end to culture wars?
Among the many things to celebrate in Obama’s convincing victory is American voters’ rejection of the “culture war” agenda that Sarah Palin brought to the Republican ticket.