The BBC have fought me from ditch to ditch using a top class legal team and every litigation tactic available. This is an organisation of enormous repute devoted to providing impartial news coverage and comment to Britain and indeed the world. How...
The two, the editor and guest editor of the Clare College student magazine, had been questioned by police after an issue of the magazine dedicated to satirising religion appeared. The magazine consisted mostly of a critique of the New Testament,...
We are going to Moscow on Thursday evening. There are a few meetings arranged there. I could have gone at the very beginning of the week but was absolutely overloaded with the usual work in the office. Stas [Stanislaw Mikhailovich] is thinking...
A coroner’s court in Australia has opened an investigation into the murder of Brian Peters, one of five journalists killed by Indonesian forces in the lead-up to the invasion of East Timor in 1975. The inquiry may help shed light on the murders,...
When SOCPA was passed, the clauses on protest seemed to have a single purpose - the eviction of lone protestor Brian Haw from his permanent plot on Parliament Square. The act stated that protests within one kilometre of parliament had to be cleared...
The 23 january decision came despite a campaign by human rights organizations, prominent European politicians, and intellectuals such as Bernard Henri Levy and Noam Chomsky. “Today’s decision delivers a double blow - one to freedom of expression...
MP David Maclean’s bill to exempt Parliament and MPs’ correspondence from the Freedom of Information Act presents a serious attack on the public’s right to know and the scrutiny of the democratic process say Article 19, English PEN and Index on...
This year’s awards will be presented by Anna Ford, with a keynote speech from Jung Chang, bestselling author of Mao: The Untold Story and Wild Swans. This year’s panel of judges will include: Mark Kermode, Conor Gearty, Dreda Say Mitchell and...
Back in 2005 Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the UN, stated that the holding of the WSIS in Tunisia offered “a good opportunity for the Government of Tunisia to address various human rights concerns, including those related to freedom of...