The revoking of arms licences to Libya and Bahrain won’t last. British firms will be back, argues John Kampfner
John Kampfner: When tyrants want tear gas, the UK has always been happy to oblige
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CATEGORY: Comment
Shadow of the fatwa
It is 22 years since Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence against the author Salman Rushdie. The author’s critics lost the Satanic Verses battle but won the war against free speech, argues Kenan Malik
“I am on the people’s side, not the regime’s”
Shahira Amin, the number two at Nile television, explains why she resigned from Egyptian state television
Sri Lankan press crackdown 2.0
Opposition voices targeted to silence them before parliamentary elections says Index’s Rohan Jayasekera
Strasbourg and sexual shenanigans: A search for clarity
Mr Justice Eady on the difficulty of balancing competing human rights and why no parliamentary draftsman could have dreamt up the facts of the Mosley case
Jon Venables: the price of justice
The right to a fair trial can override free expression, says Carl Gardner
Press Roundup: Turkish newspapers on US genocide vote
Press Roundup: Jennifer Amur examines Turkish reaction to US genocide vote
Plus Nouritza Matossian: A chance to disavow a grotesque state crime
US Armenian ‘genocide’ vote a chance for Turkey
US resolution condemning the 1915 Armenian genocide gives Turkey a chance to disavow a grotesque state crime and abandon its hideous charade says Nouritza Matossian
Binyam Mohamed: full judgment revealed
Padraig Reidy: A court ruled today that the full draft judgment of its ruling on the case of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, including sections the Foreign Secretary had attempted to suppress, should be published
Expert view: MPs’ report on press standards, privacy and libel
Alan Rusbridger, Camilla Wright, Emily Bell, Lord Lester QC and Charmian Gooch react to the press select committee’s recommendations
John Kampfner: MPs’ report delivers a boost to libel reformers
Jo Glanville: Backing for real press freedom