Journalist Mohamed Ould Abdelatif and publisher Mohamed Nema Oumar were arrested on 21 July, accused of libelling three judges. The arrests followed an article in the privately owned Arabic weekly al Hurriya about criminal appeal judges accepting...
The Russian State Duma voted 339-1 today to tighten media rules on slander and libel. Redefining the offences as ‘dissemination of deliberately false information damaging individual honour and dignity’, the new legislation would allow authorities...
London Underground's ban of an exhibition advert is elitist, writes Edward Lucie-Smith Exhibition organisers at the Royal Academy are expressing bewilderment and outrage, at least in public, because the people who run advertising for the London...
In a move designed to tackle the threat of extremism on university campuses, the UK government issued updated anti-terrorism guidelines for academics on 22 January. The recommendations state that universities should have a clearly defined freedom...
Pakistan’s popular television news channel, Geo, resumed broadcasting on 21 January, after two months off air. Independent news networks had been prevented from broadcasting after President Musharraf declared a state of emergency last November, but...