Lawyer Le Cong Dinh (right) has always worked to change the system from within - which is exactly why his arrest is troubling, says Roby Alampay On the surface of it, there is nothing new about Vietnam’s arrest on 13 June of a prominent lawyer for...
It's time to confront technology companies in the West on the role they play in censorship worldwide, says Claire Ulrich The upheaval in Iran this week has led thousands around the world to discover the incredible power of Twitter. Because we are...
The ruling against blogger NightJack suggests that anonymous speech is bad for society, says David Banisar The decision by Mr Justice Eady that the identity of police blogger NightJack could be released has been characterised by many observers as...
Reporter Saeed Kamali Dehghan describes the struggle to get information in and out of Tehran Huge rallies in Tehran yesterday saw hundreds of thousands of people defy bans and take to the streets to protest at the declaration that the president,...
A private investigation into the Iraq war will only backfire on Gordon Brown, writes Chris Ames Does Gordon Brown really think he will get away with a secret Iraq inquiry that --- surprise, surprise --- will report after the general election?...
English libel law turns US protection for free speech on its head. Floyd Abrams considers how the UK became an international libel tribunal English defamation law is under fire. Last July, the United Nations Human Rights Committee expressed...
Fiery television debates, and the tactics of Ahmadinejad’s own supporters, have emboldened Iran’s newspapers, says Meir Javedanfar The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not make life easier for Iran's press. During his term of office, more than...
Tamsin Allen asks why a former intelligence agent is being denied the right to a fair hearing MI5 officers guard many secrets. But, as Stella Rimington well knows, they can tell their own personal stories providing no genuinely secret and damaging...
The House of Lords ruling on secret evidence raises the need for the admission of intercept intelligence in terror trials, says Roger Smith Nine-nil. A judicial decision of the House of Lords does not get more decisive than that. It was by this...
Attacks on human rights representatives at the UN Human Rights Council are part of a campaign to undermine freedom of expression, says Roy W Brown Efforts of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), representing the 57 Islamic states, to...