As the battleground of the Syrian conflict rages offline, the internet is playing an important role in allowing its citizens to communicate with the rest of the world. Jillian C. York reports
The online war for Syria
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There must be a new public interest defence in the Defamation Bill, scientists, entertainers and campaigners tell Government
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Why should Amazon be our taste and decency police?
The online retailer has been criticised for profiting from ebooks featuring terror and violence. No one should tell us what to read, says Jo Glanville
Belarus: journalist detained for allegedly slandering president
Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut was detained last night for allegedly insulting the country's president, Alexander Lukashenko. Poczobut writes for Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, and now faces up to five years in prison. According to his wife,...
In a league of its own
As sports stories grab the headlines in the run up to the Olympics, Martin Polley explores the human rights issues surrounding sporting events
Internet freedoms under increasing attack
While the internet and social media facilitate democratic instant global discourse, they are also tools of control, says Kirsty Hughes
PLUS: Read our Storify of the Dublin Internet Freedom Conference
Sport v human rights
Mihir Bose asks whether human rights should be a criterion for hosting coveted international sporting events
The return of a bad idea
Cindy Cohn is alarmed by the shift towards mass surveillance in the UK government’s “snooper’s charter”
Nine-year-old school dinner blogger gagged
UPDATE 1.35pm : Argyll & Bute Council have lifted the ban on Martha Payne's school dinner photography. Photographs included in the blog of a primary school student's school dinners have been banned by her local council. Martha Payne, from...
1968 Mexico Olympics: The student deaths that marred the Games
Sunday Times reporter Brian Glanville, who has died aged 93, was expecting to cover the Olympics in 1968 – instead he found himself reporting the massacre of 300 students