Trevor Phillips, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said the BBC may be sanctioned if comments made by the public on its website do not comply with Labour’s new anti-discrimination laws. The move follows public criticism pver...
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Iran: protests at funeral of prominent dissident
Iranian authorities have acknowledged that at least three protesters who were jailed after the countries disputed presidential elections in June, were beaten to death in prison. A military court announced that 12 prison officials had been charged...
Danish radiologist gagged by UK libel laws
Danish radiologist, Henrik Thomsen has said from now on he will not publish his research findings in the UK as he fears he will be sued for libel. His decision follows legal action against him by GE Healthcare, a British subsidiary of General...
Australia’s great barrier
Canberra is making alarming advances in web censorship, says John Ozimek
Moroccan blogger and internet cafe owner jailed
In Morocco blogger, El Bachir Hazzam, has been given a four-month sentence on a charge of "spreading false information about human rights that undermined the kingdom's image." Internet café owner Abdullah Boukfou was given a 12-month sentence on a...
Twitter targetted by pro-Iranian hackers
Social networking website Twitter, along with the pro-opposition website mowjcamp.org, has been targeted by a group of pro-government hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army accordning. Both websites, which became focal points for the...
UK: MPs take on CIA over rendition secrets
A group of MPs has launched legal action against the CIA in a landmark legal case in the United States in an attempt to force the authorities there to release thousands of pages of files about the extraordinary rendition of Islamic terrorist...
BBC condemned for pulling “pregnant nun” ballet
The BBC has come under fire for pulling sections of the Sergei Diaghilev ballet from its Christmas television schedule after discovering it featured a deformed Pope who rapes nuns. BBC4 was due to show Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez in a...
Libel: BBC concedes to Trafigura
Index on Censorship and English PEN today have expressed dismay that the BBC has conceded the libel action brought by toxic waste shippers Trafigura in the High Court
Libel: BBC backs down on Trafigura report
The BBC has today withdrawn claims made on flagship news programme Newsnight that oil-trading company Trafigura caused deaths in the Ivory Coast after toxic waste was dumped there. in a settlement designed to head off a potentially massively...