On the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Index on Censorship and international free speech campaigners call on Iran to release the more than 60 writers, journalists, and bloggers currently in prison
PLUS: Maziar Bahari calls on the regime to let his colleagues go
Miliband forced to reveal secret torture evidence in Binyam Mohamed case. Index on Censorship party to key test of open justice
John Kampfner: A stain on this nation’s name
PLUS: Read the government’s last ditch attempt to censor judge
Silvio Berlusconi’s has stepped up his campaigns against his television rivals, press freedom and the internet. Giulio D’Eramo reports
John Kampfner: The week the legal establishment bit back
Lord Hoffmann: The libel tourism myth
Do British laws represent a serious threat to freedom of expression?
Ken MacDonald argues British courts suppress free speech around the world
and Eric Barendt makes a proposal for balancing privacy against press freedom
Pope Benedict has attacked British equality legislation, claiming it counters free expression. Is he right? Brendan O’Neill and Naomi Phillips go head to head
A lot, say the press. And the Supreme Court agrees. Jen Robinson writes about the landmark decision that reversed an alarming trend of anonymity and “alphabet soup” in the British justice system
Significant victory against the superinjunction but the fight for free speech goes on says John Kampfner
Despite the odd absurd anomaly, such as an attempt to prosecute for a depiction of a woman having sex with a cartoon tiger, the UK government’s “extreme pornography” laws have not have proved to be the threat to free expression says John Ozimek
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s election campaign was coloured by the blatant abuse of state media resources says Sanjana Hattotuwa