Mary Whitehouse was a shrill provocateur on a relentless crusade to stifle, oppress and scare, writes Padraig Reidy Mary Whitehouse has always been a peripheral idea in my life --- one of those puppets on Spitting Image I never really recognised as...
The censorship of an exhibition in Sydney says more about the infantilising impulse of the authorities than it does about art, says Binoy Kampmark 'A barrier of illiterate policemen and officers stands between the tender Australian mind and what...
Two men, a student and an academic administrator, were held for six days by Nottinghamshire police last week under the Terrorism Act. Hicham Yezza and Rizwaan Sabir of Nottingham University were detained after Mr Sabir downloaded a 'terror manual'...
A truck carrying thousands of copies of Zimbabwe’s leading independent newspaper was burned out last weekend, writes Wilf Mbanga A 14-tonne truck containing 60,000 copies of last weekend’s edition of the Zimbabwean on Sunday was burned out as it...
Lawyers representing journalist Shiv Malik and Greater Manchester Police were today told to draft new production orders as judges adjourned to consider their decision in Malik's attempt to quash an order relating to materials for his book Leaving...
Journalist Shiv Malik's attempt to have a production order served on him by police resumes at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning. Malik, 27, was ordered to hand over notes, tapes and other materials relating to his book Leaving Al Qaeda,...
Recent factional fighting in Beirut saw journalists come under attack, writes Charles Chuman On 7 May 2008, Hezbollah and its allies in the Lebanese opposition began dismantling the authority of the Lebanese government. The army and police force...
The Crown Prosecution Service and West Midlands Police will today formally apologise to the makers of Undercover Mosque, a Channel 4 documentary highlighting inflammatory speech in UK mosques. The film makers sued the CPS and West Midlands Police...
Eugenie Dolberg and Maysoon Pachachi remember a brave activist and journalist killed in Iraq earlier this month Sarwa Abdul Wahab Al Darwish was a 36-year-old Iraqi journalist from Mosul. On 4 May, Sarwa was in a taxi, returning from the market...
Journalist Agil Khalil of the opposition newspaper Azadlig had an attempt made on his life on 7 May, when someone tried to push him under an underground train. Later that day, two men grabbed him near the newspaper’s office. Khalil believes it was...
Reuters photographer Howard Burditt was was released on bail yesterday after he was arrested on Monday for allegedly using a satellite phone to file pictures of the aftermath of Zimbabwe's elections. Meanwhile, Davison Maruziva, editor of the...
On 6 May, the head office of the Leadership newspaper in Abuja was raided by policemen from the Niger State Command in north central Nigeria. The police had a list of 15 senior editorial staff who they claimed were wanted in Minna, the Niger State...