Fiery television debates, and the tactics of Ahmadinejad’s own supporters, have emboldened Iran’s newspapers, says Meir Javedanfar The election of...
Iran: elections free up the media
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Keeping it secret
Tamsin Allen asks why a former intelligence agent is being denied the right to a fair hearing MI5 officers guard many secrets. But, as Stella...
Weighing up the evidence
The House of Lords ruling on secret evidence raises the need for the admission of intercept intelligence in terror trials, says Roger Smith...
Shoot the messenger
Attacks on human rights representatives at the UN Human Rights Council are part of a campaign to undermine freedom of expression, says Roy W Brown...
Secrecy of jury system can hinder justice
We need more transparency on jury trial deliberations, says Frances Gibb Does the jury system work? No one knows --- because under the present law,...
Tiananmen 20: Qian Gang
The 4 June massacre signalled an end to 1980s press reform in China The Communist Party's crackdown on democracy demonstrators in Beijing 20 years...
Censorship is the wrong way to combat BNP
The illiberal obsession with silencing Nick Griffin and the British National Party in the run up to elections has won the party undeserved...
Tiananmen 20: Liu Hongbin
Poet Liu Hongbin fled China after taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests. Here, he describes his experience of returning to China as a persona...
Police shelve review on Kingsnorth protest
The failure to publish the long awaited report on policing tactics last summer is leading to accusations of a cover-up. Chris Ames reports The Home...
The right to protest: the “Twitter revolutionary”
The unprecedented mass protests in Moldova last month would not have happened without Twitter. Natalia Morar should know: she was one of the...
The orthodoxy of offence
In an extract from the series Manifestos for the 21st Century, New Humanist editor Caspar Melville explores the impact of identity politics on free...
The tyranny of the take-down notice
The closure of Nadine Dorries's blog simply on suspicion of defamation emphasises the need for reform of libel legislation says Padraig Reidy It's...
