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Zimbabwe: Index on Censorship Award winner hospitalised by police
Zimbabwean security officers used brutal methods to disperse a peaceful march by approximately 100 members of the Law Society, including it’s president, Index on Censorship award winner Beatrice Mtetwa, outside the High Court in the capital Harare...
Russia: Freedom report hits raw nerve
Freedom House’s annual report Freedom of the Press, released last month, caused an outcry over the state of local media in Russia. Freedom House, a leading American civil rights watch-dog, put Russia on 164th place among 195 countries, and named...
World Press Fredom Day 2007
BBC reporter Alan Johnston was kidnapped in March, and suddenly press freedom, in the most literal sense, has become a talking point. Websites and blogs all over the world carry badges calling for his release. Last week, BBC colleagues held a...
Iran plans to monitor phone messages
As part of a renewed crackdown on personal freedoms in Iran, the latest government-sanctioned curb is on mobile messaging. Iran’s Ministry of Telecommunications announced this week that the Iranian government is now in the process of acquiring the...
What has the BBC got to hide?
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...
Syrian advocate sentenced to five years
Clareification: police drop case
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,...
Russia: Diary of the discontented
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...
Court hears tale of murder and cover-up
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,...