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Roadmap for free expression

Roadmap for free expression

As Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sign up to a ground-breaking code of conduct, will this change the way they do business with repressive regimes? Leslie Harris, who was a key player in forging the agreement, explains what it means for free speech....

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Youth jailed for king ‘insult’

A schoolboy in Morocco has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for insulting the country's monarch. The 18-year-old allegedly changed the 'God, Fatherland, King' national slogan on his school blackboard to 'God, Fatherland, Barcelona'. Read...

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Turkey bans blogspot

A Turkish Court has banned internet users in Turkey from accessing blogs hosting service Blogger.com and any blogspot.com domain. The court decision came after the Digiturk Company, a subscription based only digital TV platform owning the right to...

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Croatian reporter killed by car bomb

Journalist Ivo Pukanic and marketing executive Niko Franjic have been killed in a car-bomb attack in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. Pukanic's magazine, Nacional, had gained a reputation for reporting corruption and organised crime. Read more here

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China lobbied EU not to honour Hu Jia

China sought to prevent the awarding of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Chinese dissident Hu Jia on 23 October. Prior to the awarding ceremony, the Chinese ambassador to the EU Song Zhe warned the European Parliament President...

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Dink police acquitted

Two Turkish policeman charged with abusing their office after posing for photographs with the lead suspect in the murder of Hrant Dink have been acquitted. The court claimed that it could not find 'solid and convincing evidence' of wrongdoing.

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Turkish PM wins cartoon case

Turkish PM wins cartoon case

Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a claim of 'moral damage' against satirical magazine Leman On the cover of its 6 February edition, the magazine carried a photomontage of Erdogan showing his middle finger, while a speech bubble read 'We...

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