The editor of Taqadoumy website Hanevy Ould Dehah remains in detention after a  Supreme Court decision to retry him  on a charge of  'offending...
Court orders Mauritanian web editor’s retrial
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CATEGORY: Digital Freedom
Clinton to deliver speech on web freedom
Padraig Reidy: Hillary Clinton’s web freedom speech – the Index analysis
Australia: anti-censorship website censored
The Australian internet company, auDA that runs the .com.au domain registry has been accused of censoring a website satirising Australian...
Russian internet provider admits blocking websites
Claims of internet censorship have spread amongst the Russian blogosphere after the wireless internet service provider, Yota, admitted blocking...
Carter-Ruck: courts mugged by new web reality
Padraig Reidy: The Trafigura Twitter revolt shows the law cannot keep up with the culture of the Internet
Bahrain: government orders over 1,000 websites blocked
On 23 September, the government has announced plans to block 1040 websites, referring to a resolution which states that all telecommunications...
Mauritania: website editor imprisoned
Hanevey Ould Dehah, editor of the website Taqadoumy has been convicted on a charge of “offending public decency” and given a six month prison...
US tests technology to foil foreign web censorship
The U.S. government is covertly testing technology in China and Iran that lets residents break through screens set up by their governments to limit...
Malaysia in web censorship U-turn
Malaysian rights activists have welcomed the government's decision not to implement a controversial plan to create an Internet filter blocking...
“Web attacks were aimed at Georgian blogger”
Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told technology website CNET News that denial-of-service internet attacks which disrupted Twitter,...
Web petition stalls German videogame ban
German government plans to ban violent videogames will have to be put on hold, after a successful internet petition by German gamers. The...
Anger as Russia closes down history website
A group of British academics including the historian Orlando Figes and the poet and translator Robert Chandler have spoken out after authorities in...
