Dara O’Briain, John Kampfner and David Mitchell on blasphemy, the libel reform campaign and offence
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Wossy's warning
Jonathan Ross reminds media to be careful what they say about his departure from the BBC
China: Film-maker jailed for six years
Film-maker Dhondup Wangchen has been jailed for six years in China for making a documentary which featured the unvarnished political views of Tibetans. In his film, Leaving Fear Behind, Wangchen interviewed 108 ordinary Tibetans giving them the...
Provocative processions
Oliver Kamm: Cable street protesters were wrong
Libel reform: has your MP signed up?
Rebecca Watson catalogues responses to libel queries to parliamentarians from you
Yemen: government seizes editors
Yemeni security forces yesterday arrested Hisham Bushraheel, editor of the independent daily Al-Ayyam, along with his son Hani in the souther city of Aden. Acting on the orders of the prosecutor’s office, security forces entered the newspaper’s...
Azerbaijan: editor charged
Imprisoned newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev has been charged with drugs offences after Azerbaijani authorities claim to have found heroin in his cell. After brief court session it has been ruled that he should stand under the new charge. This...
From Cable Street to Wootton Bassett
Padraig Reidy: Islam4UK’s proposed march throws up some awkward questions for liberal free-speech defenders
Opposition leader marks first year of life sentence
On 29 December 2009, Birtukan Mideksa, the leader of Ethiopia's Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party, marked one year in prison. The 36-year-old lawyer and former judge was initially imprisoned between 2005 and 2007 following her role as an...
Ireland's blasphemy law challenged
Padraig Reidy: Atheists test Ireland’s new blasphemy law