The pro-Kremlin youth organisation Nashi has launched a legal offensive against four European newspapers over allegations that its activists issued...
Russia: Pro-Kremlin youth group sues four European papers
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Lance Lattig
Lance Lattig
Peru: TV journalist charged with inciting violence
The judge of the Alto Amazonas First Mixed Tribunal has initiated criminal proceedings against Acate Geovanni, director of Radio Oriente and Channel...
Bangladesh: Reporter tortured by elite police unit
F.M Masum, a journalist for the English-language daily The New Age, was arrested on 22 October and tortured in Dhaka. He was held by the Rapid...
Murder, He Said
US courts struggle to distinguish between incitement, threats and mere advocacy of of violence, says Wendy Kaminer, who is speaking at the Battle of Ideas in London on 31 October
Turkey: EU criticises attacks on Pamuk
The European Union on 14 October called on Turkey to shield Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk from court cases undermining freedom of...
Internet free speech isn't an insular issue
Lance Lattig: Google is seeking allies in Europe for its free expression initiative, but where will that leave the Tories?
Russia: security agent talks press freedom
An international conference on press freedom in Vienna, reports Andrei Soldatov, included a surprising guest: a Russian security service agent.
Anna Politkovskaya: the search for justice continues
On 7 October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her Moscow apartment building. Her sister Elena Kudimova spoke to Lance Lattig about Anna’s death, the ongoing search for justice, and the prize that bears her name
Supreme Court: Open justice at stake
Index on Censorship‘s challenge today at the UK Supreme Court leads to a preliminary victory.
Brown caught out on Iraq “lessons learned”
On a visit to Iraq, Gordon Brown said he asked the cabinet secretary to make two major changes in the way intelligence is used. But when Chris Ames investigated the story, he discovered that Brown had done no such thing.
Serbian gay pride parade cancelled
A gay pride parade in Belgrade scheduled for 22 September was called off after police told organisers that they could not guarantee their safety....
Mexican editor threatened over swine flu figures
On 14 September Jesús Hernández García, the editor of the Centro Noticias Tamaulipas news website, was threatened and assaulted by officials from...