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...
Today's ruling may help to fend off 'fishing expeditions', writes Padraig Reidy A London court today ruled that the production order served on journalist Shiv Malik was ‘too wide’ in its scope. Malik, who was written extensively on UK jihadists and...
The government’s latest legislation on ‘extreme pornography’ is based on ill-informed notions, writes Julian Petley Question: what do Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Inside Linda Lovelace have in common? Answer: they were all...
Gay sex, moral crusades and Desperate Dan: the Mayo Echo row has it all, writes Joseph Sexton A popular community-based website in the west of Ireland was forced to cease operating last week in the fallout that followed the publication of an...
Hicham Yezza, the University of Nottingham employee who came to prominence after helping a research student download a so-called 'terror manual', has had his deportation date cancelled, as his solicitors seek a judicial review of his case. Mr Yezza...
Mary Whitehouse was a shrill provocateur on a relentless crusade to stifle, oppress and scare, writes Padraig Reidy Mary Whitehouse has always been a peripheral idea in my life --- one of those puppets on Spitting Image I never really recognised as...
Two men, a student and an academic administrator, were held for six days by Nottinghamshire police last week under the Terrorism Act. Hicham Yezza and Rizwaan Sabir of Nottingham University were detained after Mr Sabir downloaded a 'terror manual'...