On 2 August, a Pakistani police station supervisor allegedly beat a female curator for "indecent behavior". The incident occurred in Nairang Art Gallery, a well-known gathering place for left-leaning intellectuals in Lahore. According to the Human...
Index on Censorship news editor Padraig Reidy said today: “David Cameron must not allow legitimate anger over the recent riots and looting in the UK to be used in an attack on free expression and free information. Too often, channels of...
Noting how social media, particularly the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service, were used to organise this week's intense riots, David Cameron today told parliament that the government is looking into banning people from using social networking sites...
Ales Bialiatski, head of Viasna, Belarus's leading human rights group, has been arrested on suspicion of "concealment of income" and tax evasion. Tatsiana Reviaka, A member of Vesna, told Human Rights House Belarus that she believed "the reason...
An extract from Becky Hogge‘s new book, asking if the web can really set us free
The UK government’s dropping of blocking plans are to be welcomed, says
Peter Bradwell. But there are questions over what happens next with web copyright
The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil has been arrested in Egypt while reporting from Cairo. In her most recent tweet, Khalil said she and those with her were "OK" and on the way to see district prosecutors. She had travelled to Tahrir Square after Egyptian...
Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, a Thai political activist and former editor-in-chief of the Voice of Taksin and Red Power partisan news magazines, was last week charged with two offences of lese majeste for two separate articles deemed critical of the...
Liverpool John Moores university has dropped its libel case against Conservative MP Robert Halfon, who had criticised the university’s alleged commercial links with the regime of Colonel Gadaffi.
Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan, editor of the Tamil-language daily Uthayan, was on Friday evening beaten by unidentified men with iron bars in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. Having been rushed to hospital with critical head injuries, he remains...