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...
Journalists in Georgia have felt the heat during recent upheaval in the former soviet state. Here, Winston Bean tells of the conditions he and his colleagues have faced in recent days Earlier this week, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili...
Tunisian dissident lawyer and writer Mohamed Abbou was arrested in March 2005 and jailed for three and a half years for his internet expose of torture in Tunisian prisons. This is his first major published commentary on the state of Tunisian human...
It hasn’t been a good few days for ‘halfpint’, ‘ian’ and ‘vaughan’, three Sheffield Wednesday supporters who took advantage of the apparent anonymity provided by their usernames to post seriously nasty comments about the club’s directors on the...
Truth, notoriously, is the first casualty of war. The truth about the fate of Armenians living under Ottoman rule in 1915 may not be dead yet, but it has certainly wilted in the glare of Washington lobby politics. What should be the subject of...