Geng He, the wife of Gao Zhisheng, a prominent Chinese dissident who disappeared in February 2009, said late Wednesday that she had not heard from her husband even though Chinese officials had told a human rights group recently that Gao had been in...
Padraig Reidy: Something for the weekend
Drug firm GE Healthcare has dropped its libel suit against Danish doctor Henrik Thomsen, who had criticised the company's product, Omniscan. Read more here
Padraig Reidy: The PCC got it right on Gately. Fresh outrage is misguided
The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed a complaint by Stephen Gately’s partner about a Daily Mail column on the Boyzone singer’s death. The watchdog argued reprimanding Jan Moir for the beliefs expressed in her article ‘would be a slide towards censorship’
Padraig Reidy: Did Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe fall prey to libel laws?
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Sergei Shvedko, chief editor of the Rodnoye Priyapovye, is to go on trial for expressing doubts that the Holodomor --- the 1930s famine in which millions of Ukranian starved to death because of the policies of Joseph Stalin --- was genocide aimed...
Laws were revised late last Friday forbidding journalists from filming, recording or photographing subjects without their express permission. Parliamentarian Panah Huseynov claims this is a move to restrict the freedom of press and announced he...
Burma's junta has released the co-founder of the National League for Democracy, Tin Oo after nearly seven years in detention. Tin, who established the League with Aung San Suu Kyi, has been granted freedom shortly before a UN envoy is due to visit...