Index on Censorship has learned that government lawyers are attempting to submit secret evidence on the treatment of former Guantanamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, as the Foreign Office continues to attempt to prevent the release of potentially damning information about his detention.
Carol Ann Duffy, whose poem 'Education for Leisure' was withdrawn from schoolbooks over fears it encouraged violence, has been appointed the UK's...
Clearcast, the company that regulates television advertising on behalf of Ofcom, has requested that violent scenes be removed from an anti-domestic...
The British government has said it will not now go ahead with plans to create a cenrtal communications database. Read more here
Zubeida Mustafa examines the Pakistani media's response to the arrests of eleven Pakistani students now facing deportation from the UK At a time...
The UK's Information Commissioner has said there will be no move to censor Google Street View, despite admitting it carries a small risk of privacy...
In a stirring and provocative speech at the Freedom of Expression awards, Sir David Hare presented a challenge for Index on Censorship, and all free...
News that anti-terror officers trawled Damian Green MP’s personal emails for information, including details of Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti,...
Conservative MP Damian Green and civil servant Christopher Galley will not face charges relating to leaks of government documents after Director of...
Why is British government trying to censor documents relating to the Iraq war it has already published, asks Chris Ames A new twist in the tale of...
Ofcom has fined the BBC £150,000 for breaches of the broadcasting code on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show in October. An Ofcom statement said: 'The...
The UK government’s retention of this archaic legislation only serves to justify oppression in other countries, writes Evan Harris In 1763,...
