Stores may be required to request ID for those buying spray paint under new motions. LA Councilman Dennis Zine has made calls for a motion which would require stores to keep record of the name and address of anyone buying spray paint and “graffiti...
A sentence of six months and a suspended sentence of another year in prison were handed down on Tuesday to Gatot Machali, manager of Batam-based Radio Era Baru, who was found guilty of broadcasting without permission and disrupting neighbouring...
The appeal of Paul Chambers in the "twitter joke trial" is to take place on 10 November. The trainee accountant from Doncaster who was convicted for sending threatening messages after he joked on Twitter that he would blow up Robin Hood Airport if...
Sara Yasin: DOOM, Deutschland and the violent video game fallacy
As jubilant Libyans vent their hatred of an autocratic leader who for decades, stifled all forms of free expression and creativity. Shahira Amin asks whether “One Libya” can ever be more than a revolutionary slogan
RBS is no longer Belarus’s broker — the bank has announced that it will no longer work on behalf of the government of Belarus after an Index on Censorship and
Free Belarus Now campaign
A flawed media law already hampers the work of journalists in Sudan. But now the government is considering introducing even more restrictions.
Abdelgadir Mohamed Abdelgadir reports
The Starkey brouhaha follows a well-trodden path says John Kampfner. Curmudgeonly man says something crass. Somebody gets cross.
Emily Badger: Blocking mobile networks to quash protest? Already a reality in the US
Belarus’s president “pardons” nine of 41 political prisoners on 11 August, the same day when US toughened economic sanctions against his regime. Olga Birukova reports