The European Arrest Warrant is a valuable tool, writes Chris Huhne, but it should not be used to restrict freedom of expression The case of the odious Dr Frederick Toben is destined to become a cause celebre precisely because such hard cases test...
President Aliyev’s tight grip on the press has severely damaged his country’s democracy, writes Vugar Gojayev Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan has been an increasing source of concern during the last four years, with a sharp rise in violent...
Karina Moskalenka, the lawyer representing the family of murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya, has taken ill after what appears to be a deliberate poisoning attempt. The trial of three men accused of Politkovskaya's murder is due to begin today....
UK ministers have dropped plans that would allow ministers to remove juries and the public from hearings on national security grounds. Read more here
The gravest danger to religious freedom in Russia comes from the Kremlin’s approach to combating extremism, writes Geraldine Fagan of Forum 18 The odd one out in the latest update to Russia’s Federal List of Extremist Materials, announced on 29...
Diyar Abbas Ahmed, a reporter with private news agency Ain, was shot by unidentified gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk on Friday. Read more here
Publisher Gibson Square have confirmed that it has indefinitely suspended publication of The Jewel of Medina. Author Sherry Jones has also cancelled a planned appearance at Frankfurt Book Fair. Read more here
Submissions for bail for Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben will now not be heard until next week. Toben is currently being held in immigration custody at Wandsworth prison. His solicitor, Kevin Lowry-Mullins, told Index on Censorship that his...
The BBC has been ordered to pay an estimated £500,000 costs to fertility doctor Mohamed Taranissi, who is suing the corporation over the documentary IVF Undercover. The payment relates to the BBC's adoption, and subsequent abandonment, of a...
A Niger court has ordered the provisional release of Moussa Kaka, who has been held for over a year. Read more here
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has said that editor Ibrahim Eissa will not have to serve a two-month jail sentence. Read more here
The sedition trial of Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin begins today in Kuala Lumpar. Read more here