This is a guest post by Anthony Dworkin 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. Opinion polls showed clearly that,...
The New Statesman has removed a post from the blog of political editor Martin Bright after a threat of legal action from Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi. The controversial businessman raised objections to links in the article to material hosted by...
This is a guest post by Stryker McGuire, contributing editor for Newsweek Barack Obama rides into the White House on the back of such high expectations that he cannot help but disappoint. And among those he will disappoint will be advocates of...
Index on Censorship’s Padraig Reidy appeared on Listening Post, Al Jazeera’s media programme, last Friday, discussing Hezbollah and its use of the media.
A US court has reversed a 2006 decision by Judge Irvin Snyder to compel author Timothy O'Brien to disclose the sources that gave him information on the estimated wealth of Donald Trump. He and Time Warner Book Group were being sued by Trump over...
Actor Sienna Miller has launched a law suit against the photographic agency Big Pictures (UK) Ltd and its founder, Darryn Lyons. Miller is seeking compensation for harassment and breaches of privacy. Read more here
The successes of Harun Yahya show just how easy it is to shut down web discussion in Turkey, writes Yigal Schleifer Turkish Internet users woke up on 24 October to find that access to Blogger, the popular blog-hosting site owned by Google, had been...
Prominent Turkish writer Cezmi Ersoz, who was charged with 'discouraging people from military service' in an article in Leman magazine on September 2007, has been acquitted today. A lawsuit was filed against Ersoz for his article titled 'Askerliğin...
In lifting sanctions less than one year on from the murder of Alisher Saipov, the EU is letting Uzbekistan’s brutal dictator get away with murder, says Michael Andersen Last Friday, 24 October, was the first anniversary of the murder of the...
A schoolboy in Morocco has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for insulting the country's monarch. The 18-year-old allegedly changed the 'God, Fatherland, King' national slogan on his school blackboard to 'God, Fatherland, Barcelona'. Read...
Internet filtering, no matter how modern, serves the same purposes as censorship always has, says Egbert Dommering Filtering is the latest form of censorship. By filtering we mean the technical blockages of the free flow of information across the...
Old colleagues meet again after 15 years to discuss new and old threats to the free word. Chris Keulemans reports from a conference on free expression to mark the Amsterdam World Book Capital / International Publishers Association 2008 IPA Freedom...