Silvio Berlusconi’s schemes to gag dissenting voices seem to have been revealed in a series of intercepted phone calls. But it may be too late to redress the balance, says Giulio D’Eramo
Italy: Berlusconi under investigation
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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
Geert Wilders touches down
Liam Hodkinson: Geert Wilders touches down
Jack Straw cuts “success fees”
Index on Censorship today welcomes the Justice Secretary’s decision to cut lawyers’ fees dramatically in ‘no win no fee’ defamation cases, but warns that costs are only one part of a libel system in need of serious reform
Michael Foot – free speech champion
Michael Foot was not only a principled politician, writes Paul Anderson. The former Labour party leader was a passionate journalist and a lifelong defender of free expression
“Our Society Will be A Free Society” campaign launches petition
In response to the brutal crackdown against journalists and writers in Iran, Index on Censorship and a coalition of leading press freedom and free expression groups launch a petition calling for the release of those imprisoned