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‘A government more concerned with silencing critics than addressing its own failures’
News that anti-terror officers trawled Damian Green MP’s personal emails for information, including details of Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti,...
These pirates won’t be sunk
The conviction of the Pirate Bay Four is not just a breach of the right to free expression, says Sean Dodson, it’s an absurdity in an era when free...
Tiananmen twenty years on
Twenty years ago this week, Chinese students began their occupation of Tiananmen Square, a protest that ended in a massacre. In an exclusive extract...
Freedom of information when it suits
Why is British government trying to censor documents relating to the Iraq war it has already published, asks Chris Ames A new twist in the tale of...
Argentina: free press, for now
From Raúl Alfonsín onwards, Argentina has done well to move on from the dark days of the generals. But is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's...
Not in my backyard
The Internet threatens to make US obscenity law unworkable, says Marjorie Heins Robert and Carleen Thomas were happily operating the ‘Amateur Action...
Seditious libel law is a travesty of justice
The UK government’s retention of this archaic legislation only serves to justify oppression in other countries, writes Evan Harris In 1763,...
The slow death of freedom of expression
The United Nations Human Rights Council today passed a resolution aimed at restricting criticism of religion, or 'religious defamation'. Roy W Brown...
This is legal blackmail
Britain's libel laws are a malign force far beyond just celebrity journalism. Radical reform is overdue, writes Jo Glanville This article originally...