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Index on Censorship welcomes reversal of United Kingdom Supreme Court anonymity
Significant ruling endorses free press and open justice
French commission reignites burka debate
Natasha Lehrer: France steps closer to banning the Islamic face veils in public with the release of a landmark parliamentary report.
Venezuela: Chavez bent on silencing media
Free media in Venezuela suffers another blow, RCTV has been removed from cable platforms. Daniel Duquenal reports
Tweeting against freedom
The social media campaign against Rod Liddle, rumoured to be made editor of the Independent, is not just illiberal, argues Hari Kunzru, it is dangerous, censorious, and inexcusable. The centre-left has damaged the culture of free speech in Britain
A lesson from McLibel
Corporations should be open to uninhibited public scrutiny and criticism argues Julian Petley. To prevent legal intimidation, multinationals should be treated like public authorities and prevented from silencing their critics with libel threats
US reporter ‘expelled’ by Israel
Jared Malsin, news editor for a Palestinian agency, put on flight to New York reports
Dimi Reider
The right to veil
Suggesting banning women from dressing how they please is deeply offensive says Jess McCabe
Commemorating Hrant Dink: “Let’s talk about the living”
Editor Hrant Dink was killed on 19 January 2007. In this interview with Nouritza Matossian, published in Index on Censorship magazine shortly after his death, Dink described his commitment to free expression and reconciliation between Armenians and Turks
Birmingham six libel case settled
Barrister Louis Blom-Cooper has settled in a libel action brought against him by Birmingham six pair Hugh Callaghan and Gerry Hunter at the Dublin High Court. Hunter and Callaghan claimed that a 1997 pamphlet by Blom-Cooper, The Birmingham Six and...