Blogger and pro-democracy activist Nguyen Tien Trung is facing the death penalty after being charged with "trying to overthrow the government" and is due to be tried at the end of the month. Trung was arrested in July on a charge of propaganda...
Lawyers for the foreign secretary, David Miliband have branded two senior judges "irresponsible" for wanting to disclose intelligence material related to allegations of torture involving the CIA and the UK's alleged collusion. Jonathan Sumption QC,...
Social networking site Facebook has apparently closed a group advocating 90s group Rage Against the Machine's Killing In The Name Of as Christmas number 1 single. The group, which had over 750,000 members, was set up in opposition to TV talent sho...
Egyptian journalist, blogger and human rights activist Wael Abbas has been sentenced to six months in prison according to his Twitter page. In his tweet he says "I was sentenced to 6 months in prison in absentia, I don't know yet what for, will...
Clashes have erupted in Istanbul's Beyoglu district as around 200 Kurds protesting at the closure of a leading Kurdish party clashed with Turkish nationalists and police. It was the third straight day of street violence after the constitutional...
In 2009 the government, courts and the police have connived in the suppression of investigative journalism and scientific research. But campaigns for free expression are fighting back says
John Kampfner
Not everyone can be as lucky as I was, says Alexei Sayle. Our defamation laws are as outdated as barristers’ wigs and gowns
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, is to chair the bench in what could be a landmark hearing for libel law in England. Lord Judge will preside over science writer Simon Singh's appeal against an earlier ruling on meaning in the case he is...
Golfer Tiger Woods has gained an injunction from an English court against further reporting of his private life. Woods, 33 has been in the spotlight because of revalations of extra-marital affairs. Read more here
China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites. The State Administration of Radio Film and Television said the site BTChina did not have a license to distribute audio and video content. Another popular website, the Chinese...