A reader has contacted Index on Censorship to point out that the website Transhumanity.net has been blocked on his 02 phone. We’ve checked, and he’s right --- the site is blocked as “pornography”. It’s a little difficult to see why: there’s...
Russia’s new blasphemy law is censorship under the guise of protection for believers, says Padraig Reidy
Leading human rights lawyer Anthony Lester has said proposed press regulation agreed by politicians and Hacked Off campaigners is “unprecedented in the free world”. Padraig Reidy reports
The Justice Minister has said defamation reform will be fully in place within six months. Padraig Reidy reports
New legislation against “homosexual propaganda” has been passed against backdrop of piousness and machismo of Putinism, says Padraig Reidy
The Greek journalist who published the infamous “Lagarde list” of Swiss bank accounts could face two years in jail for breaching privacy. In the latest development, his trial was postponed to October. Padraig Reidy reports
Kostas Vaxevanis: An open letter to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso
Index on Censorship has joined Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) in writing a letter of protest to the country’s president President Yoweri Museveni, after the network’s national coordinator, Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala was attacked and arrested by police
Alan Shatter’s 24-year old work of fiction sent to censor amid controversy over abortion and police contact. Padraig Reidy reports.
Plus: The full list of publications banned in Ireland
Justice is better served by openness and transparency, writes Padraig Reidy
Journalists, human rights activists and government representatives are gathered this week in San José, Costa Rica for the 20th annual World Press Freedom Day. Every 3 May, UNESCO hosts a series of panels, workshops and ceremonies to evaluate global...
Padraig Reidy: Libel begins at Larne
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