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Ian Tomlinson and policing protest
While Ian Tomlinson, who died of a heart attack last week during London's G20 protests, was not actually involved in the protests, this video still...
Dyab Abou Jahjah
Dyab Abou Jahjah is the Lebanese-born founder of the Arab European League, an Antwerp-based organisation which claims to speak for Europe’s Muslims....
The libel bind: Afua Hirsch
In the latest article in the libel bind series, a collaboration between Index on Censorship, English PEN and the Guardian, Afua Hirsch, Guardian...
G20 protests: 'It was a proper siege and a breach of basic human rights'
This is a guest post by Cecilia Anesi At 9am on Wednesday, 1 April three friends and I, all freelance photographers, were already walking around the...
Blears to be sued for libel?
Harry's Place is reporting that MCB member Daud Abdullah is to sue Hazel Blears MP after she accused him of supporting terrorism in signing the...
The Economist on religious defamation
The Economist has run a strong editorial on the UN Human Rights Council's 'religious defamation resolution', and the idea of ideologies demanding...
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez
The proposal to drop the US's ban on its citizens travelling to Cuba is to be welcomed, not least for the simple fact that Cubans could do with the...
Regulation of New Media Bill
Tom Harris MP has a report on the UK government's latest legislation on blogging. The most interesting section of the bill concerns the new...
Beating censorship with the 'Way of the Blogs'
As part of the Libel Bind series, a collaboration between Index on Censorship, English PEN and the Guardian's Liberty Central, Robert Sharp of...