Bulent Esroy, a popular transsexual singer in Turkey, was acquitted yesterday of charges of ‘turning the people against military service’. Esroy had spoken out against the military campaign against the Kurdish militia groups in Turkey, but the...
Senior MPs from all the major parties will tomorrow ask the government to end the practice of wealthy foreign people using British libel law and British courts to silence investigative journalists. In a debate to be held tomorrow morning former...
On the anniversary of the murder of independent journalist Deyda Hydara (right), Dawn Starin says the media must turn its attention to The Gambia, where free expression is increasingly under threat A few weeks ago, David and Fiona Fulton, a British...
A nuclear whistleblower and BBC journalists are being unjustly pursued, says Chris Ames Why is the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigating a customs official who embarrassed the security services over nuclear proliferation? As...
Author and dissident Liu Xiabao was arrested on Monday in Beijing. Liu, who is on the board of Chinese PEN, was among 300 intellectuals who signed the Charta 2008 declaration calling for democracy and widespread political reform in China. The...
Memorial's historical archive must be restored immediately. An open letter from Orlando Figes and some of the world's leading academics Dmitrii Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St Petersburg Vladimir...
The treatment of Vittorio Filippis, former publisher of Libération, signals the deteriorating situation for the media in France. Natasha Lehrer reports A demonstration was held on 5 December outside Paris’s Palais de la Justice to protest against...
A Wikipedia page showing an image of an album cover by German heavy metal band The Scorpions has been blocked following allegations of potential illegality. The Internet Watch Foundation has said the image, which shows a naked pre-pubescent girl,...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on 2 December that Turkish Labour Party (EMEP) member Ahmet Gemici's right to freedom of expression was violated when the police seized copies of a party magazine whose distribution or sale had been...
Oleg Panfilov assesses the twists and turns of the investigation into Anna Politkovskaya’s murder and considers the chances of a fair trial The killing of Anna Politkovskaya two years ago split the Russian public. The majority of people chose to...