Nouritza Matossian remembers Armenian journalist and campaigner Hrant Dink, who was murdered on this day (19 January) in 2007
Turkey: “We will continue to build on his hopes and dreams”
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Britain: Matters of Decency
The parliamentary debate on "violent pornography" is in danger of allowing personal tastes to overshadow compelling, factual arguments, writes...
Ukraine: The politics of hunger
The battle over the legacy of the Ukranian famine threatens to divide the country, writes Michael Foley So often that which politicians hope will...
New attempt to end blasphemy law
Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris will tomorrow table an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill calling for the abolition of...
Russia: Elections of the absurd
Coverage of the recent Duma poll and forthcoming presidential race suggests that Russian media increasingly only functions to endorse the government...
Sudan: The great teddy bear fiasco
Gillian Gibbons’s recent imprisonment in Sudan led Albaqir A Mukhtar to ask if the Khartoum government is protecting Islam or defiling it The naming...
Britain: ‘What people take offence at, or chose to be offended by, will always be unpredictable’
Last week, Stephen Green of conservative religious group Christian Voice failed in his attempt to have the BBC charged with blasphemy for its...
Russia: Protesters under pressure
Vladimir Putin is ultimately responsible for last weekend's oppression of political demonstrations, writes Oksana Chelysheva There are two Russias...
Pakistan: Coping with censorship
As President Musharraf announces that he will end Pakistan's state of emergency on 16 December, Shirin B Sadeghi looks at how the media has...
Britain: Choices, not rights
The row over whether David Irving and Nick Griffin should speak at the Oxford Union is not an argument about freedom of speech, writes Padraig Reidy...