Submissions for bail for Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben will now not be heard until next week. Toben is currently being held in immigration...
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BBC ordered to pay costs in Taranissi IVF libel case
The BBC has been ordered to pay an estimated £500,000 costs to fertility doctor Mohamed Taranissi, who is suing the corporation over the documentary...
Toben hearing adjourned
The extradition hearing of Australian Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben has been adjourned until 17 October. Toben, who was apprehended at...
Man faces obscenity charge over Girls Aloud torture fantasy
A UK civil servant is in court today, charged under the Obscene Publications Act, after posting a story describing the kidnap and torture of members...
Turkey’s secular mindset, dominated by matters of faith
Turkish publisher Ragıp Zarakolu, honoured by the International Publishers’ Association for his ‘exemplary courage in upholding freedom to publish’...
The Big Chill
This week's convictions of three British men on terrorism offences showed that there is still much to learn about jihadist groups in the UK and...
Looking for trouble
Seeking offence, as Christians have done in the case of Terence Koh's Jesus statue, is the tactic of the vindictive and the bullying, writes Padraig...
Blog faces takedown after neo-Nazi allegation
UK political blog Harry's Place may be removed by webhost Daily.co.uk after a complaint from an academic whom it claimed had posted links to...
Libel without tears
Today's apology to Salman Rushdie in the high court could take the chill off future defamation cases. Index on Censorship reports Salman Rushdie set...
‘This kind of terror prevention constrains us all’
The Terrorism Act has again proved to be much too broadly defined for comfort, writes Jo Glanville Aabid Khan, Sultan Muhammed and Hammad Munshi...