Journalist Mohamed Ould Abdelatif and publisher Mohamed Nema Oumar were arrested on 21 July, accused of libelling three judges. The arrests followed...
Mauritanian journalists arrested for libel
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Natasha Schmidt
Natasha Schmidt
New curbs on Russian media
The Russian State Duma voted 339-1 today to tighten media rules on slander and libel. Redefining the offences as ‘dissemination of deliberately...
Censorship of condescension
London Underground's ban of an exhibition advert is elitist, writes Edward Lucie-Smith Exhibition organisers at the Royal Academy are expressing...
New guidelines for combating campus extremism
In a move designed to tackle the threat of extremism on university campuses, the UK government issued updated anti-terrorism guidelines for...
Geo back on air
Pakistan’s popular television news channel, Geo, resumed broadcasting on 21 January, after two months off air. Independent news networks had been...