1 Jun 2009 | Index Index, minipost
Italian police have confiscated hundreds of photographs taken of allegedly topless women at Silvio Berlusconi’s villa in Sardinia, after a court appeal ruled in favour of the Prime Minister, deeming the photos to be an invasion of privacy. Read more here
29 May 2009 | Index Index, minipost
A Texas Rangers fan was nearly ejected from a Rangers baseball game against the New York Yankees in Arlington, Texas for a T-shirt that read “Yankees suck”. A security guard told her to turn it inside out, buy another shirt or they would eject her. Read more here
29 May 2009 | Index Index, minipost
Cuban journalist Victor Rolando Arroyo is in his second week of hunger strike as a protest to lack of medical attention, bad sanitary conditions in his cell, his cruel treatment, and the fact that he has not been allowed to practice religion. Arroyo was sentenced in April 2003 to 26 years in prison for acting “against the independence or the territorial integrity of the state”. Read more here
28 May 2009 | Index Index, minipost
The Australian government has back-tracked on its much criticised plan to pass legislation that would impose censorship Internet browsing habits. Read more here