Video: Demonstration for Eynulla Fatullayev
Video: Demonstration for Eynulla Fatullayev
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Congo: Human rights chief discovered dead
Floribert Chebeya, 47, the president of the human rights organisation La Voix des Sans-voix (Voice of the Voiceless) has been found dead in his car in Kinshasa. Despite a series of text messages and phone messages sent by the victim on the evening...
Counter-productive censorship
Nigel Warburton: Counter-productive censorship
Twitter bomb joker to appeal conviction
Paul Chambers is to appeal against his conviction for sending a threatening message on the social media site Twitter. The trainee accountant, 26, the tweeted "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit...
Tiananmen 21 Years On
Kathie Wu: Tiananmen 21 Years On
Tintin ban is tantamount to “book burning”
A court case in Belgium has heard lawyers representing Georges Remi, the cartoonist behind the children's sleuth Tintin, attack calls by critics to ban the stories as "like burning books". Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, a Congolese man based in Brussels,...
Testing the Polanski waters
Natalie Haynes: Testing the Polanski waters
Facebook admits to censoring site in Pakistan
Facebook admitted on 1 June that it has now blocked Pakistani users from accessing the page Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. A company spokesperson claimed the restrictions were placed “out of respect for local rules”. Pakistan temporarily banned...
Bahrain bans advisor’s memoir
The diary of a British advisor to Bahraini government has been banned after new material was added to the latest edition. The 600 page book narrates historically significant events during Charles Belgrave's time in the country from 1926 to 1957....
Sued by a holy man
Michael Harris interviews Hardeep Singh, the recent victor of the libel trial, His Holiness v Singh. What’s it like to be sued by a “holy man”?