Laws were revised late last Friday forbidding journalists from filming, recording or photographing subjects without their express permission. Parliamentarian Panah Huseynov claims this is a move to restrict the freedom of press and announced he...
Clive Stafford Smith: the fight to expose the truth about torture is only just beginning
Miliband forced to reveal secret torture evidence in Binyam Mohamed case. Index on Censorship party to key test of open justice
John Kampfner: A stain on this nation’s name
PLUS: Read the government’s last ditch attempt to censor judge
Newspaper editor Ayyub Karimov has been given a 18-month suspended sentence after being convicted of libelling the interior minister Ramil Usubov. Ububov claimed articles printed in the Azadlyg and Femida 007 newspapers were inaccurate and damaged...
Do British laws represent a serious threat to freedom of expression?
Ken MacDonald argues British courts suppress free speech around the world
and Eric Barendt makes a proposal for balancing privacy against press freedom
Pope Benedict has attacked British equality legislation, claiming it counters free expression. Is he right? Brendan O’Neill and Naomi Phillips go head to head
A lot, say the press. And the Supreme Court agrees. Jen Robinson writes about the landmark decision that reversed an alarming trend of anonymity and “alphabet soup” in the British justice system
Significant victory against the superinjunction but the fight for free speech goes on says John Kampfner
Despite the odd absurd anomaly, such as an attempt to prosecute for a depiction of a woman having sex with a cartoon tiger, the UK government’s “extreme pornography” laws have not have proved to be the threat to free expression says John Ozimek
Significant ruling endorses free press and open justice