The Australian National Classification Board’s website was hacked into just before Senator Stephen Conroy went onto television to defended the government’s internet filtering scheme on 29 March. In the broadcast, Conroy claimed the website was...
As UK citizens prepare to exercise their freedom of expression at demonstrations during the upcoming week of the G20 summit, the media continues to warn of imminent riots, while most protest groups assert that violence will not be used. Fears of...
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, has announced that she has referred the case of UK resident Binyam Mohammed to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The ex-Guantanamo detainee claims that an MI5 agent, known as ‘witness B’, was complicit...
The United Nations Human Rights Council today passed a resolution aimed at restricting criticism of religion, or 'religious defamation'. Roy W Brown examines why the UN is putting protection of ideas above freedom of expression Slowly but...
Google said that its YouTube video-sharing website had been blocked in China. Google said it did not know why the site had been blocked, but a report by the official news agency Xinhua said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had fabricated a video...
The UK government has said that communications over social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace could be monitored in an effort to tackle crime and terrorism. Read more here
Sir Ken Macdonald QC, Former Director of Public Prosecutions, has joined the board of Index on Censorship. Sir Ken, a co-founder of leading human rights chambers Matrix, was Director of Public Prosecutions from 2003 to 2008. He was knighted in...
A parliamentary report published by the Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned that counter-terrorism laws are being abused by police in their dealing with protests. Legislation including the Terrorism Act has allowed a heavy-handed approach to...
Writer and journalist Abou Abbass Ould Brahim, the editor of the news website Taqadoumy, was released today after being held for three days in the Mauritanian capital. The website was allowed to reopen 24 hours after the Nouakchott prosecutor's...
Australia has blacklisted a webpage from the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks containing an index of URLs censored by Danish authorities. The Australian Communications and Media Authority added two Wikileaks pages to its censorship list: one for the...