Today in the High Court US medical device company NMT Medical was ordered to pay £200,000 into court in their libel action against cardiologist Dr...
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UAE: News website shut down
The Emirates Local News website (http://localnewsuae.com), which translates and posts all news about the UAE from around the world, has been blocked...
Wikileaks and State Department correspondence
Index on Censorship has obtained copies of correspondence between whistleblowing website Wikileaks and the US State Department
Wikileaks: UK issues DA-Notice as US briefs allies on fresh leak
Wikileaks: UK issues DA-Notice as US briefs allies on fresh leak
Governments, organisations and media across the world have been put on alert as whistleblowing site Wikileaks looks set to release millions of diplomantic communications. Emily Butselaar reports
Turkey: Nervin Berktaş tried in connection with controversial book
Writer Nevin Berktaş, author of the book "Difficult places that challenge the faith: Prison Cells" (published by Yediveren Yayınları in 2010), is...
‘Without free speech writers can have very little impact on culture’
In his speech at the European Writers’ Parliament in Istanbul, Hari Kunzru raised the issue of Turkey’s free speech violations
“My body is in England, my mind still in Belarus”
How do you survive as a journalist in a country ranked worse than Iran on press freedom and worse than Zimbabwe on human rights? In the lead up to next month’s Belarusian presidential elections, exiled reporter Olga Birukova talks to Index on Censorship about her experiences as a young journalist
Iran: Arrest warrant for Rafsanjani’s son
An arrest warrant has been issued for the son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Mehdi Hashemi, whose father is an influential cleric and former president...
Zimbabwe: State broadcaster strips Tsvangirai of title
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) now regularly refers to Morgan Tsvangirai as “the leader of the MDC party” rather than “the Prime...
China: 60,000 porn sites closed in crackdown
Sixty thousand websites deemed to host pornographic content have been shut down by the government since December 2009. The National Office Against...