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Pakistan continues silencing dissent through selective web blocks
Pakistan is notorious for blocking websites. It has banned more than 4,000 websites for what it considers objectionable material. The latest was IMDb, Zofeen Ebrahim reports.
Uganda’s shocking record on gay rights
The government’s stance on homosexuality is considered among the harshest in the world, Edward Ronald Sekyewa writes
Controversy on campus: six university speakers that caused outrage
As the body representing UK vice-chancellors releases new guidelines on external speakers on campuses, we look at some cases where they could have been put to use
Hacks, hacking and propaganda: what’s happening to Turkey’s journalists?
Turkey’s media proprietors seem all too willing to play along with practices that make the country feel like a corrupt central Asian republic, says Yavuz Baydar
Is this America’s own Pussy Riot trial?
US climate activist Reverend Billy faces one year in jail for bank protest. Padraig Reidy reports
UAE: American citizen in maximum-security prison over satirical YouTube video
Shezanne Cassim was arrested for posting a mock documentary spoofing youth culture in Dubai
Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis acquitted of privacy charges
Index award winner who published list of possible tax dodgers walks free
Denmark: arrest and protest as reading by controversial poet goes ahead
Yahya Hassan has caused nationwide debate with his poetry, which is critical of Islam and parts of the Danish immigrant community
Twenty-four hour arty people
Julia Farrington hits the north for the Art Party conference