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CATEGORY: Comment
PCC rejects Stephen Gately complaint
The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed a complaint by Stephen Gately’s partner about a Daily Mail column on the Boyzone singer’s death. The watchdog argued reprimanding Jan Moir for the beliefs expressed in her article ‘would be a slide towards censorship’
Russia: FSB press office licenced to spy
Russia’s Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, has granted the same office that responds to journalists requests licence to search their homes, wiretap them and place them under surveillance, reveals Andrei Soldatov
Iran’s controlling interest
Azar Mahloujian guides us through some of the stranger examples of literary repression in Iran
Open letter to Ayatollah Khamenei
On the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Index on Censorship and international free speech campaigners call on Iran to release the more than 60 writers, journalists, and bloggers currently in prison
PLUS: Maziar Bahari calls on the regime to let his colleagues go
Binyam Mohamed: Continuous Cover Up
Clive Stafford Smith: the fight to expose the truth about torture is only just beginning
Miliband forced to reveal secret torture evidence
Miliband forced to reveal secret torture evidence in Binyam Mohamed case. Index on Censorship party to key test of open justice
John Kampfner: A stain on this nation’s name
PLUS: Read the government’s last ditch attempt to censor judge
Italy: Berlusconi squeezes media
Silvio Berlusconi’s has stepped up his campaigns against his television rivals, press freedom and the internet. Giulio D’Eramo reports
Let battle commence over privacy
John Kampfner: The week the legal establishment bit back
Lord Hoffmann: The libel tourism myth
Striking a balance on privacy
Eric Barendt asks if a privacy statute would help the courts weigh freedom of speech and privacy