On 18 January at least 30 women were detained in Kampala while attempting to deliver a petition calling for the resignation of the electoral commission chief Badru Kiggundu, who they say is unable to organise credible and fair elections, scheduled...
Following violent clashes in Nairobi on 16 January that left five dead, Kenyan police have arrested more than 300 people, including 16 Somali MPs. Last week's demonstration were organized to demand the release of Abdullah Al-Faisal, the...
Iran’s police chief today warned the opposition movement that their emails and text messages are being monitored and that those who use SMS, emails or other web tools to organise protests will be severely punished. General Ismail Ahmadi-Moghaddam...
Barrister Louis Blom-Cooper has settled in a libel action brought against him by Birmingham six pair Hugh Callaghan and Gerry Hunter at the Dublin High Court. Hunter and Callaghan claimed that a 1997 pamphlet by Blom-Cooper, The Birmingham Six and...
Lord Justice Jackson’s report on civil litigation costs has endorsed the recommendations on limiting of costs put forward by Index on Censorship and English PEN’s report, Free Speech Is Not for Sale In a report published today, Lord Justice Jackson...
Google has announced it will stop censoring search results in China after discovering that hackers have been targeting the company’s Gmail system in order to access the email accounts of Chinese human rights campaigners.
Three press freedom activists who organised a flash-mob protest in support of jailed Kazakh journalists have been put on trial. The group - which includes Raushan Esergepova, the wife of the jailed newspaper editor Ramazan Esergepov - are accused...
Five protesters who shouted that British soldiers would "go to hell" at a homecoming procession in Luton have been found guilty of using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour likely to cause harassment and distress. Read more here
North Eastern Monthly editor JS Tissainayagam has been freed on bail by a Colombo court pending appeal. Tissainayagam was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment last year after he was accused of supporting terrorism. Read more here.
Valentín Valdés Espinosa, journalist of the newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo, was found dead On 8 January in the city of Saltillo, northern México. Valdés Espinosa had been kidnapped the day before with a colleague, after they left the newspapers...