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 front of the European Court of Human Rights after UK newspaper the News of the World published details...
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