Hamas officials prevented journalists in Gaza from participating in a meeting on 10 November. The reporters were due to attend a meeting organised by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). However, the venue turned the journalists away...
Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court has dismissed a case for the repeal of criminal and seditious libel brought by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ). Provisions in the 1965 Public Order Act stipulate prison terms for journalists found...
Bloggers Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli were sentenced on 11 November to two years and two-and-a-half years in prison respectively. Human rights groups and analysts believe the sentences are politically motivated, and that the they were sentenced on...
Secret inquiries seriously undermine the principle of open justice, says
Daniel Machover
Padraig Reidy: Why is free speech an afterthought in UK law?
Rohan Jayasekera: The use of so-called “insult laws” to censor legitimate criticism of a country’s leader is a tool of authoritarian regimes everywhere, and now, it seems Iraq too.
As Index on Censorship and English Pen launch “Free Speech is Not For Sale”, a damning report on English libel laws, John Kampfner highlights the pressing need for reform
Launch of the Libel Reform campaign and the English PEN and Index on Censorship "Free Speech Is Not For Sale" report 12 – 2pm, 10th November 09. Light lunch provided. Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA Index on Censorship and English...
A new report by English PEN Index on Censorship argues that fear of libel action means that freedom of expression is under threat as never before, John Kampfner tells the Independent’s Ian Burrell
A journalist was kidnapped and killed in Durango state in northern Mexico on 2 November. Bladimir Antuna García, a reporter for the police section of El Tiempo de Durango newspaper, was found dead on Monday according to the Durango attorney...