Istanbul police have arrested 50 contributors to Turkey's largest user-generated dictionary. The "Sour Dictionary" (Eksi Sozluk) site offers...
Turkey: Contributors to user-generated dictionary arrested
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Zimbabwe: Editor and reporter arrested for writing “false statements”
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested two journalists from the Sunday Standard newspaper: editor Nevanje Madanhire and reporter Patience Nyangove for...
Are privacy injunctions a necessary evil?
Max Mosley, Hugh Tomlinson QC, Suzanne Moore and David Price QC debated privacy, free speech and a feral press at Index on Censorship event
India: Journalist beaten by police
Shalabh Mani Tripathi, Bureau Chief of Hindi news channel IBN, has claimed that he was beaten by police for his reporting on a medical officer found...
France on its way to total Internet censorship?
New laws could could give French authorities web-blocking powers unrivaled in the democratic world. Félix Tréguer reports
Russia: Oleg Kashin defeats libel claim
Russian journalist, Oleg Kashin, has won the right to speculate about the identity of two men who beat him with iron rods. Kashin spent five days in...
Israeli radio station targeted by fake free speech campaign
Activists have attacked the Army Radio with a bizarre phone message scam, reports Daniella Peled
Sudanese government halts the printing presses
This year has seen the arrest of more than 30 journalists and a popular newspaper prevented from printing five times, reports Abdelgadir Mohamed Abdelgadir
Bahrain: Life sentences for exercising their right to free speech
Activists are accused of belonging to a secret network, but the court has failed to prove its existence or even its name, says Saeed al-Shehabi, chairman of the Bahrain Freedom Movement – and sentenced in absentia
Reaction from Maryam Alkhawaja whose father and uncle are among those convicted
‘Voluntary’ website blocking scheme threatens free expression
Leaked documents have revealed British government plans that could seriously affect web users. Peter Bradwell reports