The treatment of Vittorio Filippis, former publisher of Libération, signals the deteriorating situation for the media in France. Natasha Lehrer...
France: arrest of former newspaper publisher sparks protests
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Emblem of darkness
Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie marked a new era: a retreat from the ideal of tolerance and the spirit of the Enlightenment, says...
Politkovskaya: slim hope for justice
Oleg Panfilov assesses the twists and turns of the investigation into Anna Politkovskaya’s murder and considers the chances of a fair trial The...
Rouble trouble hits Russian media
While the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial descends into farce, her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, is cutting reporting staff. Is there more to the move...
Parliamentary lobby
Civil disobedience is sometimes the only way of making a democratic point, says Leo Murray of Plane Stupid ‘Sir, it is with very great regret that I...
Burma tries to silence opposition
A new crackdown on the country's dissidents shows that Than Shwe's junta fears the power of the Internet, writes Larry Jagan Burma’s military rulers...
Indonesia: libel and the law
Indonesia's rich and powerful such as Aburiza Bakrie prefer to subject media outlets to criminal proceedings rather than use the press law, writes...
Ask no questions
Vietnam's journalists suffer when they dig too deep, writes Nick Caistor The 2005 Vietnamese code of practice for journalists stresses first and...
Private lives
Privacy cases in the UK continue to pose a significant challenge to press freedom, says Gavin Millar No one would describe coverage of Max Mosley’s...
The Scarlett letter
Chris Ames identifies a worrying trend in the government’s latest refusal to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act The government...