Australian Holocaust revisionist Frederick Toben will not face extradition to Germany, after the German authorities withdrew an appeal against a...
Holocaust denier Toben freed
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Burma tries to silence opposition
A new crackdown on the country's dissidents shows that Than Shwe's junta fears the power of the Internet, writes Larry Jagan Burma’s military rulers...
Kadyrov urged to appear at Politkovskaya trial
Prosecution lawyers in the case of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya are insisting that Chechnya's pro-Moscow leader Ramzan Kadyrov should...
Russian journalist severely beaten
Mikhail Beketov, editor of Khimkinskaya Pravda and a prominent opponent of local authorities’ deforestation plans, was brutally beaten outside his...
Whistleblower Pasquill to sue FCO
Derek Pasquill, the Foreign Office employee who was tried under the Official Secrets Act after leaking documents to the press, is to challenge his...
‘Scores’ of reporters arrested in Sudan
At least 60 journalists were arrested by Sudanese police while attending a peaceful protest demanding a new freedom of expression law this morning....
Politkovskaya trial opens
The trials of several men accused of involvement in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya begins in Moscow today. Read more here
Brazil: police lieutenant shoots camera.
A police lieutenant who forcibly took a cameraman’s camera, threw it to the ground and then shot it six times has been found guilty of aggressive...
Climate change protesters guilty
Five climate change protesters who climbed on to the roof of the Palace of Westminster have been found guilty of trespass under the Serious...
Pakistani journalist gunned down
Quari Muhammad Shoaib, reporter with the local newspaper Khabar Kar, was shot dead in the Swat Valley by soldiers while driving home in his car on 8...