The Czech government has expressed outrage over the broadcast of an anti-Roma (Gypsy) campaign advert by a far-right National Party (NS) which spoke of "a final solution to the Gypsy issue" Read more here
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Geert Wilders loses appeal
Controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders has lost an appeal against a pending prosecution for incitement to hatred against Muslims. Read more here
Surveillance of protesters ruled illegal
Police surveillance of arm trade protester Andrew Wood has been ruled unlawful in a decison that lawyers say will change the way demonstrations and protests are policed. Read more here
Top lawyer fails to gag Private Eye
Lawyers for Michael Napier, former President of the Law Society, have been refused an injunction by The Court of Appeal to stop Private Eye from publishing identifying details of a complaint against him. Read more here
Tamil doctors detained for giving media casualty figures
Three Tamil doctors have been detained in Sri Lanka after they supplied local and international news media with causality figures in Vanni during the last stages of the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Read more here and here
U-turn decision over open Burma trial
In a turn-around decision by Burmese authorities, officials have barred international observers including journalists and diplomants from the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after allowing them to attend. Read more here
Yemen media walk out
Yemeni journalists walked out from a press conference in protest on Tuesday after the minister Rashad Al-Alimi failed to overturn a recent suspension of publications and blockade of news websites. The Committee to Project Journalists says the...
Last Tiananmen Square “hooligan” released
Liu Zhihua, the last-known prisoner jailed on the charge of hooliganism after protesting against the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement has been released from jail in China in advance of the 20th anniversary of the...
Reporters ‘can cover Burma trial’
Officials in Burma have unexpectedly announced that a group of journalists - five local and five foreign - will be able to cover the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more here. Meanwhile Reporters Without Borders has reported...
MPs’ expenses: police will not investigate leaks to media
Scotland Yard will not investigate the leaking of details of MPs' allowances and expenses to the Daily Telegraph, the Metropolitan police said today. Read more here