Cindy Cohn is alarmed by the shift towards mass surveillance in the UK government’s “snooper’s charter”
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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
UK Parliament debates defamation bill
This week’s debate will be a key staging in the progress of libel reform, but serious issues remain for campaigners
Lord Justice Leveson’s big internet problem
The inquiry into UK press standards does not seem to understand how to deal with the web, says Marta Cooper
Belarus activist fights political sentence
Political activist Siarhei Kavalenka may have given up his hunger strike but his fight for freedom in Belarus continues, says
Andrei Aliaksandrau
Britain’s press needs a strong public interest defence
The Leveson Inquiry should not forget the need to protect British journalism, says Marta Cooper
Chiranuch Premchaiporn avoids jail term in Thai lèse majesté case
Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of the news and current affairs website Prachatai, has been convicted by the Bangkok Criminal court and sentenced to a fine and a suspended eight month prison term. Peter Noorlander reports
Thailand: Webmaster Chiranuch Premchaiporn sentenced in lèse majesté case
A Thai webmaster has been found guilty of not removing posts deemed insulting to the country's monarchy quickly enough. The court showed leniency to Chiranuch Premchaiporn, who faced up to 20 years in prison under the country's computer crime...
Eurovision winner Loreen speaks out for human rights as Azerbaijan petition approaches 4,000 signatures
The landslide winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, Sweden’s Loreen, has thwarted Azerbaijan’s attempts to use the competition to whitewash its record on free speech