Websites will be subject to further restrictions under the country’s new media law, passed by President Lukashenko on 5 August. The law stipulates that online content will now be subject to the same restrictions as the print press. The law also...
The popular video-sharing website Dailymotion has been blocked in Turkey. This is the second instance of a video-sharing website being made inaccessible by the Turkish authorities in three months. YouTube was blocked on 5 may 2008 on the grounds it...
A select committee has called for more regulation and greater safety on the Internet. But politicians should be careful what they wish for, says Bill Thompson
The latest high-profile, UK privacy case raises critical questions for press freedom, writes Jo Glanville The ruling on the Max Mosley case has turned out to be less chilling for free speech than originally feared. Mosley, the president of FIA,...
The Basque daily was closed down 10 years ago today, signalling the beginning of the Spanish government’s repression of left-wing nationalist media, writes Angelo Miotto It was called Egin, which in Basque means to do, to act. A daily paper...
The legal row between a UK blog and a Muslim activist could be a landmark case, writes Padraig Reidy The news that blog Harry’s Place is facing legal action from Mohammed Sawalha of the British Muslim Initiative was, in some ways, unsurprising....
British blog Harry's Place is facing legal action from Mohammed Sawalha, the President of the British Muslim Initiative, after a post on the site claimed that an Al Jazeera article quoted him referring to 'the evil Jew' in Britain. Harry's Place,...
As the murder trial continues this week in Turkey, the investigation remains far from complete. Jo Glanville spoke to Dink family lawyer Fethiye Çetin about the case The sixth hearing in the Hrant Dink murder trial takes place in Istanbul today. It...
Journalist Shiv Malik was today ordered to must give police all tapes of conversations with alleged jihadist Hassan Butt, with whom he had been writing a book. Justice Dyson also ruled that Malik must hand over copies of his notebooks within seven...
A publisher has been sentenced to five months in prison for ‘insulting the Turkish Republic’. Index on Censorship reports A Turkish publisher has become the latest victim of the notorious article 301, which makes it a crime to ‘insult the Turkish...