At least 28 lawsuits have been filed against the journalist Elvira Lobato and the newspaper Folha de S Paulo after the publication of an article critical on the evangelical Christian organisation the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG)....
the owner of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, Serkis Seropyan, and its new editor, Aris Nalci, are facing prosecution over a 9 November article condemning sentences passed on their colleagues. The two were summoned by an Istanbul prosecutor and...
A young reporter has been found guilty of blasphemy, writes Harun Najafizada in Balkh A primary court in the city of Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan has sentenced local journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh to death. Kambakhsh, 23, a reporter...
Dutch MP Geert Wilders has said he plans to release a film later this month that portrays the Quran as 'an inspiration for murder'. As the government expressed concern over repurcussions, Mr Wilders told a Ducth magazine: 'Now that everybody is...
The parliamentary debate on "violent pornography" is in danger of allowing personal tastes to overshadow compelling, factual arguments, writes Julian Petley In June 2007, the government introduced its 54th Criminal Justice Bill. This puts 19 new...
The battle over the legacy of the Ukranian famine threatens to divide the country, writes Michael Foley So often that which politicians hope will unite their countries does exactly the opposite. The legacy of the famines which devasted Ukraine in...
A judge has ruled that parts of the trial of Wang Yam, who is charged with the murder of biographer Allan Chappelow, should be out of bounds to the press and public. Padraig Reidy reports An Old Bailey court today ruled that evidence in the trial,...
Gillian Gibbons’s recent imprisonment in Sudan led Albaqir A Mukhtar to ask if the Khartoum government is protecting Islam or defiling it The naming of a teddy bear after a pupil, and not after the Prophet of Islam, is for all intents and purposes...
Fifty journalists were detained while covering the coup attempt in the Philippines during a court hearing on the officers' mutiny of 2003. Ellen Tordesillas was there Thursday morning. The Makati City hall premises were swarming with military...
Judge admits that terror legislation imposes restriction on personal freedom Samina Malik, the self described "lyrical terrorist" has received a nine-month suspended sentence at the Old Bailey, after being found guilty under the Terrorism Act 2000...
Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19 are alarmed by the continuing assault on press freedom in Egypt. This week, no less than three cases will come to trial. All three represent a serious infringement of the right to free expression. It is the...
Vladimir Putin is ultimately responsible for last weekend's oppression of political demonstrations, writes Oksana Chelysheva There are two Russias nowadays. One is of Putin, with his images on every other bill board, trying hard to crush, scare and...