Journalist Irina Khalip has been given a two-year suspended sentence for participation in “mass disturbance” after December’s disputed Belarusian presidential elections.
Novaya Gazeta correspondent Khalip, 43, is married to presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, who was sentenced to five years in a labour camp on Saturday (14 May). The couple have a four-year-old son, Danil.
Opposition leader Andrei Sannikov has been sentenced to five years’ labour by a Minsk court in Lukashenko crackdown
Artist Ai Weiwei has been missing for 40 days, Leah Borromeo reports from the opening of his new show
Tate Modern director Chris Dercon introduces Ai Weiwei’s work
An extract from a speech by Tate Modern director Chris Dercon at the opening of a new show by imprisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at Somerset House, London
As politicians and journalists face trial for mass street protests, Olga Birukova explains the climate of fear and intimidation journalists face
European Court finds against Mosley and throws responsibility back to parliament — now MPs need to find a way to balance privacy against open justice and free expression, Geoffrey Robertson writes
Former motorsport chief Max Mosley has failed in his bid to to impose a legal duty of “prior notification” on the press. Mosley brought a case in...
Ahead of tomorrow’s crucial European judgment on privacy and prior notification, we recap Max Mosley and John Kampfner’s recent privacy debate. Are court gagging orders on newspaper exposés an abuse of privacy laws by the rich, or a safeguard against tabloid intrusion into family life?
Three years later, the Nottingham University “terrorism” row rumbles on —- first reading was made a crime, now internal criticism. Jane Fae reports
Notes from Syria — SI reports from Syria’s capital