Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India, a book by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Joseph Lelyveld, has been banned in the Indian state of Gujrat. The book is seen as being controversial as some passages can be interpreted as...
Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has joined the ranks of other dissidents who have irked the government. He has simply gone missing. Dinah Gardner reports.
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The Press Complaints Commission paid solicitor Mark Lewis £20,000 in damages after he brought a libel action against chair Baroness Buscombe, it has been reported. Buscombe had alleged that Lewis had misled the the Culture, Media and Sport Select...
In the week that super-injunctions broke new legal ground, John Kampfner attacks a growing threat to press freedom
Reuters has announced that two of their reporters are missing in Syria. Jordanian correspondent, Suleiman al Khalidi, was detainted by the Syrian authorities on Tuesday, while Syrian photographer, Khaled al Hariri, has been out of contact since...
A Turkish court has denied an appeal of a court order for the confiscation of the unpublished book “İmamın Ordusu” or The Imams Army, written by politically outspoken (and arrested) journalist Ahmet Şık. The court claimed that the unpublished draft...
Belarusian authorities have filed charges against journalist Andrzej Poczobut. Poczobut works for the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. He is charged with insulting the Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in articles that were published in...
Two journalists, José Luis Cerda Meléndez and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, have been murdered in the northern state of Nuevo León. Cerda was a television host on national channel Televisa, which has been subjected to several armed attacks. Ruíz was...
After a performance in the House of Commons in support of Belarus’s imprisoned opposition activists and journalists, Denis MacShane warns the leaders of Europe’s last dictatorship that justice plays a long game
Belarusian politician Ales Mikhalevich has been granted political refugee status in the Czech Republic. He was imprisoned after running against Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus' presidential elections. He claims that he was tortured in the custody...