Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin has been released from jail after a court ruled that the interior minister, Syed Hamid Albar, had overstepped his authority in ordering the detention of Kamaruddin under the country's notorious Internal...
More than 150 Sudanese journalists took part 24-hour hunger strike on 4 November. Three national newspapers have also joined the protest, halting their production for three days. They were protesting against censorship by state security services on...
Among the many things to celebrate in Obama’s convincing victory is American voters’ rejection of the “culture war” agenda that Sarah Palin brought to the Republican ticket.
Barack Obama rides into the White House on the back of such high expectations that he cannot help but disappoint.
Chris Ames identifies a worrying trend in the government’s latest refusal to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act The government has blocked disclosure of a controversial email in which the current head of MI6 is alleged to have...
The New Statesman has removed a post from the blog of political editor Martin Bright after a threat of legal action from Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi. The controversial businessman raised objections to links in the article to material hosted by...
A US court has reversed a 2006 decision by Judge Irvin Snyder to compel author Timothy O'Brien to disclose the sources that gave him information on the estimated wealth of Donald Trump. He and Time Warner Book Group were being sued by Trump over...
Actor Sienna Miller has launched a law suit against the photographic agency Big Pictures (UK) Ltd and its founder, Darryn Lyons. Miller is seeking compensation for harassment and breaches of privacy. Read more here
The successes of Harun Yahya show just how easy it is to shut down web discussion in Turkey, writes Yigal Schleifer Turkish Internet users woke up on 24 October to find that access to Blogger, the popular blog-hosting site owned by Google, had been...
Prominent Turkish writer Cezmi Ersoz, who was charged with 'discouraging people from military service' in an article in Leman magazine on September 2007, has been acquitted today. A lawsuit was filed against Ersoz for his article titled 'Askerliğin...