Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was released from prison in Iran on Saturday after he was jailed in the aftermath of the country's disputed elections, has returned to London. Index on Censorship, along with Committee to Protect...
A former British spy is in court today in an attempt to stop a ban on a book he has written. The UK government say the revalations in the book could harm national security. Read more here Read Tamsin Allen's article on the case for Index on...
Newsweek magazine has confirmed that Canadian-Iranian reporter Maziar Bahari, Iran correspondent for the magazine, has been released on bail by Iranian authorities. Index on Censorship, Newsweek, Committee to Protect Journalists and Canadian...
Commodities firm Trafigura and solicitors Carter-Ruck have given up attempts to conceal a report on the company's activities in the Ivory Coast. You can read the Minton Report here
In a landmark judgment, the High Court has ruled that information on Mohamed’s treatment should be released, despite the objections of the Foreign Office. Index on Censorship reports
An answer to a parliamentary question by Paul Farrelly MP has revealed that the high court does not keep a record of the number of injunctions granted against the press. In the current edition of The Economist, media lawyer Mark Stephens says he...
The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, yesterday signed a law that will allow the state's courts to refuse to enforce British libel judgments. The new law effectively negates the practice of libel tourism. The California legislation now...
Simon Singh, the science writer who yesterday (Oct 14) won the right to appeal a preliminary judgment in a case brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association, has been accused of "maliciously" attacking the organisation. In a...
The European Union on 14 October called on Turkey to shield Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk from court cases undermining freedom of expression. A week before the European Commission released its annual progress report on Turkey, a Turkish...
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has lost a libel case against newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Dzhugashvili alleged that an article describing his late grandfather as a "bloodthirsty cannibal" defamed Stalin's "honour...