Padraig Reidy: A court ruled today that the full draft judgment of its ruling on the case of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, including sections the Foreign Secretary had attempted to suppress, should be published
Alan Rusbridger, Camilla Wright, Emily Bell, Lord Lester QC and Charmian Gooch react to the press select committee’s recommendations
John Kampfner: MPs’ report delivers a boost to libel reformers
Jo Glanville: Backing for real press freedom
John Kampfner: MPs’ report delivers a boost to libel reformers
Jo Glanville: Unanimous backing for real freedom of the press
The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed a complaint by Stephen Gately’s partner about a Daily Mail column on the Boyzone singer’s death. The watchdog argued reprimanding Jan Moir for the beliefs expressed in her article ‘would be a slide towards censorship’
Russia’s Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, has granted the same office that responds to journalists requests licence to search their homes, wiretap them and place them under surveillance, reveals Andrei Soldatov
Azar Mahloujian guides us through some of the stranger examples of literary repression in Iran
On the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Index on Censorship and international free speech campaigners call on Iran to release the more than 60 writers, journalists, and bloggers currently in prison
PLUS: Maziar Bahari calls on the regime to let his colleagues go
Clive Stafford Smith: the fight to expose the truth about torture is only just beginning
Miliband forced to reveal secret torture evidence in Binyam Mohamed case. Index on Censorship party to key test of open justice
John Kampfner: A stain on this nation’s name
PLUS: Read the government’s last ditch attempt to censor judge
Silvio Berlusconi’s has stepped up his campaigns against his television rivals, press freedom and the internet. Giulio D’Eramo reports
John Kampfner: The week the legal establishment bit back
Lord Hoffmann: The libel tourism myth
Eric Barendt asks if a privacy statute would help the courts weigh freedom of speech and privacy
