Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa dissolved parliament on Tuesday, and announced general elections as the opposition called for nationwide protests over the arrest of defeated presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka, the former army...
Ozan Kilinc, editor of Kurdish newspaper Azadiya Welat, has been sentenced to 21 years in jail for publishing 'Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) propaganda'. Comments or acts judged supportive of the PKK are a serious crime in Turkey. The PKK, branded...
Twenty-five Lebanese Shiite publishing houses have been barred from exhibiting books during the annual fair in Manama on 17 March 2010. Al Wassat daily newspaper reports that although a black list has been issued by the Bahraini authorities, the...
An Iraqi photographer who was arrested in his Mahmudiya home by the US military on 1 September 2008 has been released. Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed was held for 17 months without charge at Camp Cropper, near Baghdad, despite a ruling by Iraq’s central...
Moscow gay pride parade organisers have complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the ban on the 2009 parade. Moscow’s Mayor Luzhkow has previously labelled the parade “satanic” and the case follows a number of unsuccessful appeals...
To commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution Maziar Bahari calls on Iran’s Supreme Leader to honour its original spirit and order the release of the writers, journalists, and bloggers currently in prison
This article was originally published in the Daily Mail Every time I reassure myself that this government cannot sink lower, it surprises me. The attempt by the Foreign Office to suppress evidence that the British security services colluded in the...
The number of Freedom of Information requests refused by the UK government increased to 22 per cent in the last three month period on record, compared to 15 per cent in the comparable period in 2005. Read more here
Padraig Reidy: Binyam Mohamed revelations a victory for free speech
The full text David Miliband tried to censor (iv) It was reported that a new series of interviews was conducted by the United States authorities prior to 17 May 2001 as part of a new strategy designed by an expert interviewer. (v) It was...