Two activists climbed to the roof of the Bahrain embassy in London yesterday. Prominent opposition activist Ali Mushaima was joined by Moosa Abdali to protest human rights violations in Bahrain, ahead of this weekend's controversial Grand Prix....
A man from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, was fined £250 for writing "Kill all Taigs" --- a pejorative term for Catholics --- and "Fuck The Pope" on social networking site Facebook on his 21st birthday last August. Dean Boyd admitted to police...
How does lobbying in the UK affect international free speech? Index on Censorship’s Head of Advocacy
Michael Harris explains
Former New Zealand cricket captain Chris Cairns has won his High Court libel case and been awarded £90,000 in damages after allegations on Twitter that he was involved in match-fixing. Lalit Modi, former chairman of the Indian Premier League, had...
The teenager accused of making "grossly offensive" comments about the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan has denied charges against him. Azhar Ahmed, of West Yorkshire, appeared before Dewsbury Magistrates’ Court today. Ahmed is charged...
A former New Zealand cricketer is suing a former Indian Premier League boss over a Twitter posting at the High Court today. Chris Cairns is taking action against Lalit Modi following a Tweet from January 2010 which alleged Cairns was involved in...
A damages claim by Manchester United and Wales footballer Ryan Giggs against the Sun newspaper was thrown out by the High Court today. Giggs claimed that the tabloid had "misused" private information, and said he was entitled to claim damages for...
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs has been named in court for the first time as the Premier League footballer with a high-profile privacy injunction against the Sun. At a hearing at the high court today, Giggs agreed to lift the anonymity part of the...
Marta Cooper looks at what we’ve learned from the UK’s investigation into the press
Any reduction in the scope of the Freedom of Information Act in limiting its costs or capping the number of requests will have an impact on Article 10 rights to freedom of expression, Index has said in a submission to a parliamentary committee