This is regrettable We are sorry to announce the closure of Press Gazette magazine. For 43 years Press Gazette has been the leading magazine for the UK journalism profession. Wilmington Group plc bought Press Gazette out of administration in 2006,...
While Ian Tomlinson, who died of a heart attack last week during London's G20 protests, was not actually involved in the protests, this video still raises questions about how the police handle demonstrations.
Dyab Abou Jahjah is the Lebanese-born founder of the Arab European League, an Antwerp-based organisation which claims to speak for Europe’s Muslims. The Arab European League gained a certain notoriety when it weighed into the Motoons debate by...
In the latest article in the libel bind series, a collaboration between Index on Censorship, English PEN and the Guardian, Afua Hirsch, Guardian legal affairs correspondent, examines some unsavoury legal aspects of the UK defamation industry: 'But...
This is a guest post by Cecilia Anesi At 9am on Wednesday, 1 April three friends and I, all freelance photographers, were already walking around the City of London ready to document the protests at the Bank of England and Bishopsgate. Until...
Harry's Place is reporting that MCB member Daud Abdullah is to sue Hazel Blears MP after she accused him of supporting terrorism in signing the Istanbul Declaration.
The Economist has run a strong editorial on the UN Human Rights Council's 'religious defamation resolution', and the idea of ideologies demanding 'protection': [T]here is an insidious blurring of categories here, which becomes plain when you...
The proposal to drop the US's ban on its citizens travelling to Cuba is to be welcomed, not least for the simple fact that Cubans could do with the money that tourism from the US will bring. This is a welcome step towards normalisation. The Cubans...
Tom Harris MP has a report on the UK government's latest legislation on blogging. The most interesting section of the bill concerns the new regulatory body, BlogOff: 'But by far the most controversial part of the Bill is the section that demands...
As part of the Libel Bind series, a collaboration between Index on Censorship, English PEN and the Guardian's Liberty Central, Robert Sharp of English PEN is wondering what the alternative to laws on religious defamation might be. He suggests...