A new crackdown on the country's dissidents shows that Than Shwe's junta fears the power of the Internet, writes Larry Jagan Burma’s military rulers have launched a fresh crackdown on dissidents in the country, with more than a hundred activists...
Prosecution lawyers in the case of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya are insisting that Chechnya's pro-Moscow leader Ramzan Kadyrov should be called to give evidence at the the alleged murderers' trial. Kadyrov's name is frequently...
Indonesia's rich and powerful such as Aburiza Bakrie prefer to subject media outlets to criminal proceedings rather than use the press law, writes David Jardine Above the ruck and reel of the city traffic the sound of crisp litigation documents...
Over at Comment is Free, Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville is talking about the privatisation of censorship on the Internet. "[The Internet] is a revolution not just in terms of technology, but in terms of who does the censoring. It's no...
Mikhail Beketov, editor of Khimkinskaya Pravda and a prominent opponent of local authorities’ deforestation plans, was brutally beaten outside his house in Moscow by unidentified assailants on 13 November. Beketov is still waiting for the decision...
Derek Pasquill, the Foreign Office employee who was tried under the Official Secrets Act after leaking documents to the press, is to challenge his dismissal from his post at the Employment Tribunal. Pasquill was dismissed summarily on the grounds...
At least 60 journalists were arrested by Sudanese police while attending a peaceful protest demanding a new freedom of expression law this morning. The editor of the daily newspaper Ajras Al-Hurriya, Murtada el-Ghali, told AFP "They took us very...
The trials of several men accused of involvement in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya begins in Moscow today. Read more here
Vietnam's journalists suffer when they dig too deep, writes Nick Caistor The 2005 Vietnamese code of practice for journalists stresses first and foremost that journalists should be: ‘absolutely loyal to the cause of nation building and protection...
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
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....
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...