A young reporter has been found guilty of blasphemy, writes Harun Najafizada in Balkh A primary court in the city of Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan has sentenced local journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh to death. Kambakhsh, 23, a reporter...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has lost an appeal to prevent the release of a document that formed part of the government's case for invading Iraq. The document was written by John Williams, then Head of News at the Foreign Office. It formed...
A judge has ruled that parts of the trial of Wang Yam, who is charged with the murder of biographer Allan Chappelow, should be out of bounds to the press and public. Padraig Reidy reports An Old Bailey court today ruled that evidence in the trial,...
The prosecution of a Foreign Office civil servant under the Official Secrets Act has been dropped. The UK government now has questions to answer. Jo Glanville reports Derek Pasquill was charged last September with making damaging disclosures of...
The delicate balance of Malaysia's inter-ethnic politics has come under threat from an unexpected source and the response from the national government poses serious questions about freedom of expression. David Jardine reports The previously unknown...
Fifty journalists were detained while covering the coup attempt in the Philippines during a court hearing on the officers' mutiny of 2003. Ellen Tordesillas was there Thursday morning. The Makati City hall premises were swarming with military...
Judge admits that terror legislation imposes restriction on personal freedom Samina Malik, the self described "lyrical terrorist" has received a nine-month suspended sentence at the Old Bailey, after being found guilty under the Terrorism Act 2000...
Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19 are alarmed by the continuing assault on press freedom in Egypt. This week, no less than three cases will come to trial. All three represent a serious infringement of the right to free expression. It is the...
As President Musharraf announces that he will end Pakistan's state of emergency on 16 December, Shirin B Sadeghi looks at how the media has responded to the crackdown When President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on 3 November, one...
It was the most iconic image of the second intifada: the killing, on camera, of a Palestinian child caught up in the violence of September 2000. But a French libel case has raised questions about what happened that day in Gaza. Natasha Lehrer...