As Tony Blair announced his resignation, David Keogh and Leo O’Connor were sentenced for breaching the Official Secrets Act: convicted for revealing...
Britain: No right to ‘public interest’ defence for officials who leaked memo
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Rohan Jayasekera
Rohan Jayasekera
Rohan Jayasekera is a journalist, editor and online free expression advocate, tracking human rights, digital media, cultures of change and the conflict zeitgeist.
Philippines: Journalists not impressed by ‘change of heart’ on free speech controls
On the face of it, the move of First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo to drop the 16 libel cases he has filed against 46 journalists is laudable....
Midwife to a reborn Russian nationalism
On 4 November 2005, more than 3,000 activists of nationalist organisations, making Nazi salutes and with stylised swastikas on their banners,...
A state-run bearpit for religious extremists
“If you build it, they will come…” Novelist W.P. Kinsella’s fictional Iowa farmer Ray built a makeshift baseball diamond to bring the faithful to...
Running on empty down to the poll booths
Even though there are no cars passing through, the little mining town of Kamituga, on the fringes of Southern Kivu and Maniema provinces, is full of...
Failure to challenge religious censorship will carry a severe price
On the Saturday before Christmas 2004, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in Britain’s East Midlands was in a state of siege. Children who had come...
Court hears tale of murder and cover-up
A coroner’s court in Australia has opened an investigation into the murder of Brian Peters, one of five journalists killed by Indonesian forces in...
Dishonour and death in India
Eighteen-year-old Maimun, filled with dreams of romantic love, made the mistake of eloping with Idris, who was already married with two children. It...
Recovering a lost right to protest
When SOCPA was passed, the clauses on protest seemed to have a single purpose - the eviction of lone protestor Brian Haw from his permanent plot on...
Russian-Chechen Friendship Society banned
The 23 january decision came despite a campaign by human rights organizations, prominent European politicians, and intellectuals such as Bernard...
Bid to exempt UK parliament from FoI law
MP David Maclean’s bill to exempt Parliament and MPs’ correspondence from the Freedom of Information Act presents a serious attack on the public’s...
Fight injustice whatever the cost
Why, when everyone else accused under Article 301 [a controversial article of Turkey’s penal code, introduced in June 2005, that makes it a crime to...