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Secret police prove Maliki's new "authoritarianism"
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.
Libel reform: The laws that stain Britain’s good name
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
Index and English Pen to launch libel report
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...
The Libel Report: The silence of the arts, the press, science, charities…
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
Journalist kidnapped and executed in northern Mexico
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...
Russia: the price of independence
Website Ingushetia.org has lost a second owner in just over a year to violence. Maria Eismont reports
Somali journalists held for photographing military action
War photographer and AFP stringer, Mohamed Dahir and Mohamoud Muktar Koofi, a Universal TV cameraman, were arrested and detained for 48 hours on 28 October after they were seen photographing African Union tanks firing at Bakara Market, Mogadishu....
Yemen: reporter banned for life
Munir Al Mawari was sentenced on 31 October to two years in prison and given a lifelong ban on practising journalism for libelling President Ali Abdallah Saleh. In the same case, editor Samir Jubran received a suspended one-year prison sentence and...
Zimbabwe: MDC censored
Zimbabwe's ministry of Media, Information and Publicity has ordered the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and public newspapers to stop reporting on ministers from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), until Morgan...