Dutch MP Geert Wilders has launched an appeal against the Home Office's decision to ban him from travelling to the UK. Wilders was scheduled to screen his controversial film, Fitna, in the House of Lords when he was refused entry into the country...
London's office workers have been wasting employers' time this week with Google's Street View. Putting together millions of images of London (and other cities) Google has created a virtual metropolis to explore. Of course, most people haven't...
This letter was published in The Times today Sir, On Monday Parliament will have a unique opportunity to repeal the arcane and antiquated offences of seditious libel and criminal defamation. These two crimes date from an era when governments...
The Guardian has lost a high court challenge to lift an emergency gagging order imposed on the publication of Barclays bank documents alleged to detail huge tax avoidance schemes. A sheaf of seven internal memos stolen by a former employee were...
Whistleblower site Wikileaks, winner of last year's Economist/Index on Censorship New Media award, seems to have disappeared. The site hit the news this week when it published a secret list of sites blocked by the Danish government. In response,...
Index on Censorship Chief Executive John Kampfner was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Front Row recently, discussing the last years of the Eastern Bloc. You can listen to the show here
Index on Censorship today announces the shortlist for the 2009 Freedom of Expression Awards. The awards, presented in association with the Economist, the Guardian, Bindmans and the Robert Gavron Trust, honour those who have furthered the cause of...
This article was originally published on Comment is Free No surprises in the line up of enemies of free expression online in a new report from Reporters Without Borders: Burma, North Korea, China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Tunisia,...
The crackdown on the lawyers protest is another sign of a regime on the brink of collapse, says Zubeida Mustafa Even before the lawyers’ ‘long march’ in Pakistan got off the ground on Thursday, the crackdown had begun. A century-old colonial law...
This is a guest post by Chris Ames The new revelations about Tony Blair’s Iraq dossier are pretty devastating. Emails revealed intelligence experts veering from despondency about exaggerated claims to black humour about Doctor Frankenstein while...