The Damian Green arrest confirms fears about a vengeful government and a supine media, says John Kampfner A few years back, when I was a full-time political journalist, I had a chat with a colleague who had just become a government information...
It’s not often that a cause that unites Jeremy Corbyn on the hard left of the Labour Party and David Davis on the libertarian right of the Conservative Party (although the government’s attempts to push through 42 days detention without charge...
The shadow immigration minister, Damian Green, was arrested last night over his alleged involvement in a series of leaks from the Home Office. While the move has been condemned by the opposition, the Home Office has denied any ministerial...
Bahman Totonchi, a journalist for the former Kurdish weekly Karfto, was arrested on 18 November following a house search by intelligence agents. The authorities had been harassing the journalist since the closure of Karfto on 29 December last year,...
Oleg Panfilov assesses the twists and turns of the investigation into Anna Politkovskaya’s murder and considers the chances of a fair trial The killing of Anna Politkovskaya two years ago split the Russian public. The majority of people chose to...
While the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial descends into farce, her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, is cutting reporting staff. Is there more to the move than the financial crisis, asks Maria Eismont Novaya Gazeta, the Russian newspaper known worldwide...
Kyrgyzstanʼs Deputy Interior Minister has said the murder of Alisher Saipov in October last year had no link to his journalistic activity. Saipov's family claims his murder was contracted by Uzbek President Islam Karimov, and has accused Kyrgyz law...
The trial of three men accused of aiding in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya has reopened in Moscow, a week earlier than planned, with a previous ban on reporters lifted. Read more here
Jagjit Saikia, district correspondent for the newspaper Amar Asam, was killed by unknown assailants on 22 November in the town of Kokrajhar. It is likely that he was targeted because of his reports on armed groups and political organisations...
Civil disobedience is sometimes the only way of making a democratic point, says Leo Murray of Plane Stupid ‘Sir, it is with very great regret that I must ask leave to visit the toilet as a matter of some urgency.’ Acting as my own lawyer had...
The trial of several men accused of involvement in the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya has been suspended, with the judge claiming the defence lawyers are 'too busy'. The lawyers deny the claim. Read more here
Australian Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben will not face extradition to Germany, after the German authorities withdrew an appeal against a decision by a London court that the arrest warrant issued against him was too vague. Read more here