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Liu Xiaobo sentenced to 11 years in prison
Prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment on 25 December. He was charged with subversion after his part in the drafting of Charter 08, a document calling for free speech and the rule of law. Western journalists and...
Interebrew ruling a victory for reporters
Michael Smyth: Strasbourg’s defence of journalists’ right to protect sources is welcome
Montazeri and the struggle for free expression in Iran
Matt Malone on the Iranian government’s assault on the press following the death of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri
Canada takes chill off libel laws
The Canadian Supreme Court ruled on 23 December to strengthen the public interest defence in libel cases. The chief justice stated that the law as it stood did not "give adequate weight" to free expression. The court also moved to change the...
Censorship in Singapore
Having avoided Singapore’s censors John Kampfner asks is the country really changing?
Ladybird libel
Crispian Jago‘s Guide to Chiropractic Treatment and English Libel Law
From Index on Censorship magazine: See no evil
Jytte Klausen talks to Index on Censorship about her new book on the Danish cartoons crisis and discusses why it was published without any illustrations.
PLUS: Jonathan Dimbleby, Kenan Malik and John Kampfner on Index on Censorship’s own debate on whether to publish the cartoons
Kenan Malik
Index on Censorship has in recent years chronicled many instances of what we’ve called "pre-emptive censorship": the willingness to censor material because of fear either of causing offence or of unleashing violence. From the Deutsche Oper...
Jonathan Dimbleby
It was a straightforward choice but not an easy decision. By tradition --- and properly --- the board does not readily interfere in the day-to-day editorial decisions taken by the Index on Censorship staff. Our job is to define the strategic...