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
Argentina has found an effective way of stifling independent inflation data — fining economists who question the official government statistics. Ed Stocker reports
Recap last night’s panel, PJ Crowley, who resigned as US State Department spokesman over the treatment of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange’s attorney Mark Stephens, investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism Emily Bell and Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen debated the fallout from WikiLeaks for freedom of speech, national security and the media
After an inquest finding that Ian Tomlinson was unlawfully killed, solicitors Sarah McSherry and Louise Christian examine the barriers to justice in cases involving the police
Last month, the high court ruled that the Metropolitan police broke the law when they kettled protesters at the G20 demonstrations in 2009. Josh Moos, one of the activists involved in the landmark case, considers the lessons to be learnt
Yesterday (27 April) a Bahraini military court has sentenced four protestors to death and a further three to life in prison. The seven people were convicted of killing two policemen during protests in the country last month. While the foreign press...
Elnur Majidli, a Strasbourg-based blogger and internet activist has been threatened with a 12 year jail sentence for “inciting hatred”. Index on Censorship’s Mike Harris met Elnur at the Council of Europe as part of Index on Censorship and the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan’s lobbying efforts
Index is pleased to announce it is to join the Global Network Initiative, the multi-stakeholder organisation created to protect and advance free speech and privacy