As President Musharraf announces that he will end Pakistan's state of emergency on 16 December, Shirin B Sadeghi looks at how the media has responded to the crackdown When President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on 3 November, one...
Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century is a series of books that evolved out of a close collaboration between Seagull Books and Index on Censorship, a home and a voice for freedom of expression since it was founded in 1972. The first four...
It was the most iconic image of the second intifada: the killing, on camera, of a Palestinian child caught up in the violence of September 2000. But a French libel case has raised questions about what happened that day in Gaza. Natasha Lehrer...
Journalists in Georgia have felt the heat during recent upheaval in the former soviet state. Here, Winston Bean tells of the conditions he and his colleagues have faced in recent days Earlier this week, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili...
Tunisian dissident lawyer and writer Mohamed Abbou was arrested in March 2005 and jailed for three and a half years for his internet expose of torture in Tunisian prisons. This is his first major published commentary on the state of Tunisian human...
President Musharraf's crackdown has taken its toll on Pakistan's already beleaguered media, writes Zubeida Mustafa On Tuesday 6 November, over 350 journalists assembled on a warm sultry afternoon on the lawns of the Karachi Press Club to decide...
Recently returned from Rangoon, Fergal Keane reflects on how new and old media worked together, allowing brave dissidents to break the Burmese junta's censorship This is the story of how new and old media combined to beat the censors in Burma, a...
It hasn’t been a good few days for ‘halfpint’, ‘ian’ and ‘vaughan’, three Sheffield Wednesday supporters who took advantage of the apparent anonymity provided by their usernames to post seriously nasty comments about the club’s directors on the...
Truth, notoriously, is the first casualty of war. The truth about the fate of Armenians living under Ottoman rule in 1915 may not be dead yet, but it has certainly wilted in the glare of Washington lobby politics. What should be the subject of...
Foreign Office civil servant Derek Pasquill has begun the long trial process after being charged under the Official Secrets Act. He is accused of making six damaging disclosures of documents that came into his possession as a civil servant. These...
I don’t play video games myself. A combination of poor hand-eye coordination and absolutely zero patience put paid to my ambition of being king of the arcade back in the days of Wonder Boy. In subsequent years I would, of course, attempt to portray...