Submissions for bail for Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben will now not be heard until next week. Toben is currently being held in immigration custody at Wandsworth prison. His solicitor, Kevin Lowry-Mullins, told Index on Censorship that his...
The BBC has been ordered to pay an estimated £500,000 costs to fertility doctor Mohamed Taranissi, who is suing the corporation over the documentary IVF Undercover. The payment relates to the BBC's adoption, and subsequent abandonment, of a...
A Niger court has ordered the provisional release of Moussa Kaka, who has been held for over a year. Read more here
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has said that editor Ibrahim Eissa will not have to serve a two-month jail sentence. Read more here
Three men are facing trial for the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, but the investigation is far from over. Index on Censorship reports Friends and campaigners are marking the second anniversary of the journalist Anna...
The sedition trial of Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin begins today in Kuala Lumpar. Read more here
The extradition hearing of Australian Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben has been adjourned until 17 October. Toben, who was apprehended at Heathrow airport on Wednesday, under a European Arrest Warrant, will face a bail hearing next Friday, 10...
A UK civil servant is in court today, charged under the Obscene Publications Act, after posting a story describing the kidnap and torture of members of pop group Girls Aloud on a web forum. Read more here
The arrest of Frederick Toben could have implications for freedom of expression in the UK, says Padraig Reidy On Wednesday, Frederick Toben, a convicted Holocaust denier, was taken off a plane at Heathrow airport by Metropolitan Police officers. He...
Frederick Toben, a historian who has been convicted in Germany for Holocaust denial, was arrested by UK police at Heathrow airport yesterday. The German authorities are seeking to have Toben returned to the country, where he was convicted in 1999....