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...
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....
In lifting sanctions less than one year on from the murder of Alisher Saipov, the EU is letting Uzbekistan’s brutal dictator get away with murder, says Michael Andersen Last Friday, 24 October, was the first anniversary of the murder of the...
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...
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...