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...
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...