Google has announced it will stop censoring search results in China after discovering that hackers have been targeting the company’s Gmail system in order to access the email accounts of Chinese human rights campaigners.
Judges decide section 44 violates claimant’s human rights but journalists and protesters are unlikely to see change on the ground says Leah Borromeo
Three press freedom activists who organised a flash-mob protest in support of jailed Kazakh journalists have been put on trial. The group - which includes Raushan Esergepova, the wife of the jailed newspaper editor Ramazan Esergepov - are accused...
The Home Secretary’s decision to ban an extremist group shows exactly why we must not allow sentiment to overrule free speech says Padraig Reidy
Five protesters who shouted that British soldiers would "go to hell" at a homecoming procession in Luton have been found guilty of using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour likely to cause harassment and distress. Read more here
North Eastern Monthly editor JS Tissainayagam has been freed on bail by a Colombo court pending appeal. Tissainayagam was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment last year after he was accused of supporting terrorism. Read more here.
Valentín Valdés Espinosa, journalist of the newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo, was found dead On 8 January in the city of Saltillo, northern México. Valdés Espinosa had been kidnapped the day before with a colleague, after they left the newspapers...
Murdered Bulgarian journalist Bobi Tsankov embraced life in the underworld.
Beth Kampschror reports
Lal Wickrematunge’s brother, Lasantha, was murdered one year ago. Here, he assesses the ongoing cost of the war in
Sri Lanka
Film-maker Dhondup Wangchen has been jailed for six years in China for making a documentary which featured the unvarnished political views of Tibetans. In his film, Leaving Fear Behind, Wangchen interviewed 108 ordinary Tibetans giving them the...