Marta Cooper
PCC funder backs fines
Marta Cooper: PCC funder backs fines
China: Several Tibetan-language sites offline
Several Tibetan-language blogs hosted in China are reported to have gone offline today, amid a period of severe unrest. AmdoTibet's blog section has been temporarily shut down, a message on the site reads, "due to some of the blog users not...
Russia: opposition newspaper office destroyed in arson attack
The offices of weekly opposition newspaper Vecherny Krasnokamsk were ravaged in an arson attack on 28 January in the south-west Russian Perm region. The paper's editor Olga Kolokolova has linked the attack to a series of investigative reports...
Hunt warns against MPs' move for statutory press regulation
Marta Cooper: Hunt warns against MPs’ move for statutory press regulation
Meyer hits out at PCC critics
Marta Cooper: Meyer hits out at PCC critics
PCC witnesses face criticism at Leveson Inquiry
Marta Cooper: PCC witnesses face criticism at Leveson Inquiry
Ethiopia: Jailed dissident blogger may face death penalty
Jailed Ethiopian dissident blogger Eskinder Nega will stand trial in March for terrorism charges, a federal high court judge ruled this week. He could face the death penalty if convicted. Nega and five other journalists were last November charged...
Uganda: Photojournalist shot at by security forces
A Ugandan photojournalist was shot at by security forces on Tuesday as he covered their attack on the motorcade of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. Isaac Kasamani, a photojournalist with the independent Daily Monitor, said men in plainclothes shot...
Twitter to restrict tweets in specific countries
Micro-blogging site Twitter last night [26 Jan] announced it would begin withholding tweets in certain countries, sparking claims of censorship. Prior to this move, Twitter had to remove a Tweet from its global network if it received a government...
Facebook more pub than publishing, Leveson told
Marta Cooper: Facebook more pub than publishing, Leveson told
Information Commissioner quizzed on data protection at Leveson Inquiry
Marta Cooper: Information Commissioner quizzed on data protection at Leveson Inquiry