A Russian court has ruled that three members of political punk rock group Pussy Riot will remain in prison until late July. The group of feminists performed an unauthorised "punk prayer" at the pulpit of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in...
Russian investigators are planning to question 600 people accused of participating in clashes with police during an anti-Putin rally on 6 May. More than 1,200 people have already been interviewed, one of whom--- Stepan Zimin --- faces criminal...
Cindy Cohn is alarmed by the shift towards mass surveillance in the UK government’s “snooper’s charter”
A council in Scotland has banned a nine-year-old girl from posting photographs of school dinners on her blog. Alice Purkiss reports
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been denied a request to re-open his appeal against extradition to Sweden. In a statement issued today, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court said that the decision to reject the request made by Dinah Rose,...
On the evening of 13 June, Azerbaijani photojournalist Mehman Huseynov was released after being detained the previous day. He was arrested after being accused of insulting policemen and charged with "hooliganism", a regular tactic used by...
A journalist and government critic has been sentenced to two years in prison in Azerbaijan. Anar Bayramli, a correspondent for two Iranian media outlets, was sentenced for a drug possession charge following a controversial court case which was said...
This week’s debate will be a key staging in the progress of libel reform, but serious issues remain for campaigners
The leader of France's National Front, Marine Le Pen has announced plans to sue philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy for libel. Le Pen's move comes after an article posted on the website La Règle du Jeu, where Levy links the controversial politician to...
The inquiry into UK press standards does not seem to understand how to deal with the web, says Marta Cooper