Civil disobedience is sometimes the only way of making a democratic point, says Leo Murray of Plane Stupid ‘Sir, it is with very great regret that I must ask leave to visit the toilet as a matter of some urgency.’ Acting as my own lawyer had...
Further restrictions on reporting of security issues would be disastrous and misguided, writes David Davis Calls for unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, reported on the front page...
The European Arrest Warrant is a valuable tool, writes Chris Huhne, but it should not be used to restrict freedom of expression The case of the odious Dr Frederick Toben is destined to become a cause celebre precisely because such hard cases test...
UK ministers have dropped plans that would allow ministers to remove juries and the public from hearings on national security grounds. Read more here
Publisher Gibson Square have confirmed that it has indefinitely suspended publication of The Jewel of Medina. Author Sherry Jones has also cancelled a planned appearance at Frankfurt Book Fair. Read more here
Submissions for bail for Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben will now not be heard until next week. Toben is currently being held in immigration custody at Wandsworth prison. His solicitor, Kevin Lowry-Mullins, told Index on Censorship that his...
The BBC has been ordered to pay an estimated £500,000 costs to fertility doctor Mohamed Taranissi, who is suing the corporation over the documentary IVF Undercover. The payment relates to the BBC's adoption, and subsequent abandonment, of a...
The extradition hearing of Australian Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben has been adjourned until 17 October. Toben, who was apprehended at Heathrow airport on Wednesday, under a European Arrest Warrant, will face a bail hearing next Friday, 10...
A UK civil servant is in court today, charged under the Obscene Publications Act, after posting a story describing the kidnap and torture of members of pop group Girls Aloud on a web forum. Read more here
This week's convictions of three British men on terrorism offences showed that there is still much to learn about jihadist groups in the UK and internationally. In an article in the new issue of Index on Censorship, Newsnight's Richard Watson...