A court in Gambia has declared illegal the arrest and ongoing detention of journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh and ordered Gambian authorities to release him. The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) also...
Burma's junta has arrested dissident comedian Zarganar and put a stop to his aid work for Cyclone Nargis victims. Rohan Jayasekera reports The Burmese junta, criticised at home and abroad for its incompetent handling of the Cyclone Nargis disaster...
A Cameroonian journalist has alleged that FC Barcelona star Samuel Eto'o headbutted him during a fracas between local journalists and the Cameroon national team. Philippe Boney, a radio reporter, says he suffered a broken arm after an altercation...
At least six people were killed after a bomb exploded outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, yesterday. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, in which 30 people were also injured, but al Qaeda has recently released...
Hicham Yezza, the University of Nottingham employee who came to prominence after helping a research student download a so-called 'terror manual', has had his deportation date cancelled, as his solicitors seek a judicial review of his case. Mr Yezza...
The censorship of an exhibition in Sydney says more about the infantilising impulse of the authorities than it does about art, says Binoy Kampmark 'A barrier of illiterate policemen and officers stands between the tender Australian mind and what...
Two men, a student and an academic administrator, were held for six days by Nottinghamshire police last week under the Terrorism Act. Hicham Yezza and Rizwaan Sabir of Nottingham University were detained after Mr Sabir downloaded a 'terror manual'...
Lawyers representing journalist Shiv Malik and Greater Manchester Police were today told to draft new production orders as judges adjourned to consider their decision in Malik's attempt to quash an order relating to materials for his book Leaving...
Journalist Shiv Malik's attempt to have a production order served on him by police resumes at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning. Malik, 27, was ordered to hand over notes, tapes and other materials relating to his book Leaving Al Qaeda,...
The Crown Prosecution Service and West Midlands Police will today formally apologise to the makers of Undercover Mosque, a Channel 4 documentary highlighting inflammatory speech in UK mosques. The film makers sued the CPS and West Midlands Police...