Take that star Howard Donald has seen a super-injunction against an ex-girlfriend lifted. Is this another nail in the coffin for these restrictive measures, asks Mark Lewis
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Take That superinjunction lifted
A superinjunction obtained by Take That singer Howard Donald has been lifted by the High Court
Alan Shadrake given six week sentence
British author Alan Shadrake has been sentenced to six weeks in prison and fined SGD$20,000 by a Singapore court
Alibhai-Brown will not press charges in Twitter case
Columnist and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has said she will not press charges against Birmingham councillor Graham Compton. Compton had tweeted...
Turkey: News website founder sentenced
Cem Büyükçakır, founder and general publications director of the Haberin Yeri website was given an eleven-month long jail sentence for publishing a...
Turkey: PM Erdogan files lawsuit against Hürriyet
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a €50,000 lawsuit against the newspaper Hürriyet and its editor-in-chief, Oktay Eksi. On 28...
DRC: Police on trial for activist’s murder
Eight police officers have gone on trial in a Kinshasa military court charged with the kidnap and murder of a human rights activist. Three of the...
Day of the imprisoned writer
It’s vital for democracies that we allow the free flow of information and ideas. On the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, Index on Censorship calls for a renewed campaign to support writers under threat
Aung San Suu Kyi free!
Burmese pro-democracy activist
Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed from house arrest. Here, we republish an article first published in Index on Censorship in 1993
“Manhunt for Mbanga”
The Zimbabwean government is said to be on a “manhunt” for editor Wilf Mbanga. Here he describes the charge against him and the dire state of free expression in Zimbabwe