Six months after the Sunday Leader editor was slain, Uvindu Kurukulasuriya looks at increasing state control of Sri Lankan media Not long before Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga was killed six months ago, his brother Lal, chairman of...
The government should not be creating new laws to enforce provisions written in the reactionary 1930s, says Michael Nugent This Wednesday the Irish parliament will vote on a new law making blasphemy an offence punishable by a fine of €25,000. If...
Suzanne Breen describes her battle to protect her sources from police in Northern Ireland Nobody expected us to win. Just by mentioning of the word “terrorism” nowadays, the state generally secures whatever it wants, even on the flimsiest basis. So...
Darryn Walker has suffered unemployment and vilification for writing a pornographic story. The censorious obscenity law that allows this to happen must be scrapped, say John Ozimek and Julian Petley Authors across the UK breathed a sigh of relief...
An oppressive new set of rules on the free expression of civil society groups will put Azerbaijan on a par with its totalitarian neighbours, says Vugar Gojayev Azerbaijan’s Parliament, the Milli Majlis, convenes today (30 June) to discuss...
The family of the slain journalist has called for the retrial of those accused of involvement in her murder to include a comprehensive new investigation. Maria Eismont reports The decision of the Russian Supreme Court to overturn the not guilty...
Azerbaijan has a new, harsher religion law and new penalties for producing, selling, circulating, importing and exporting religious literature without state permission, reports Felix Corley of Forum 18 When two Azeris crossed a remote border...
Steps taken by the government to remove Globovisión’s free-to-air licence poses a fresh threat to the country’s independent media. Daniel Duquenal reports In a move that signals a renewed attack on Venezuela’s independent media, President Hugo...
The reintroduction of the government-run press council is another marker of the decline of Sri Lanka's democracy, says Uvindu Kurukulasuriya "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets" ---Napoleon Bonaparte The guns are...
Transparency is no longer just an obsession for journalists and campaigners, writes Chris Ames The Telegraph may –-- or may not –-- have reached the bottom of the very large barrel that is the MPs’ expenses scandal. But beyond new revelations about...