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...
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Malik case resumes
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,...
CPS and police to apologise to film makers
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...
Opposition journalist in Azerbaijan attacked
Journalist Agil Khalil of the opposition newspaper Azadlig had an attempt made on his life on 7 May, when someone tried to push him under an underground train. Later that day, two men grabbed him near the newspaper’s office. Khalil believes it was...
Zimbabwe targets media in crackdown
Reuters photographer Howard Burditt was was released on bail yesterday after he was arrested on Monday for allegedly using a satellite phone to file pictures of the aftermath of Zimbabwe's elections. Meanwhile, Davison Maruziva, editor of the...
Nigerian police Arrest 15 reporters
On 6 May, the head office of the Leadership newspaper in Abuja was raided by policemen from the Niger State Command in north central Nigeria. The police had a list of 15 senior editorial staff who they claimed were wanted in Minna, the Niger State...
Sex Crime 2008
Visual artists and even pop stars could face prosecution under new British legislation, writes John Ozimek Collectors looking to make a fast buck by investing in erotica had a nervous awakening this morning. And fans of Madonna were left wondering...
Independent weekly threatened
Gazeta Slonimskaya, an independent weekly journal in Belarus, has been threatened with eviction by state authorities. In what many see as a linked event in Belarus's crackdown on independent media, Uladzimir Uladashchuk, editor of Gazeta...
Sami Al Hajj released
Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al Hajj has been released from Guantanamo Bay after six years. The US military have not pressed any charges againt Al Hajj, despite claiming he had smuggled weapons for Al Qaeda. Al Hajj, who has been reunited with his...
Turkish parliament ‘amends’ Article 301
Turkey's controversial article 301 has been reworded. Under an amendment passed by the parliament this morning, The term 'Turkishness' is replaced by the 'Turkish nation', and the term 'Republic' with 'State of the Republic of Turkey'. Index on...
