Three Tamil doctors have been detained in Sri Lanka after they supplied local and international news media with causality figures in Vanni during the last stages of the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Read more here and here
The South Asia Media Solidarity Network is an alliance of journalists’ trade unions, press freedom organisations and journalists in South Asia committed to working together to promote freedom of expression, freedom of association and journalists’ rights in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The Free Media Movement is a collective enterprise of journalists and media personnel in Sri Lanka active in all areas relating to media freedom, defending the rights of journalists and media people, calling for reform of repressive legislation, agitating against censorship and intimidation of media personnel and standing for broad principles of democratic and human rights. The FMM has become the watchdog of media freedom in Sri Lanka.
Anthony Julius and Julian Petley: a discussion on art, obscenity and the law—Read exclusively free here!
John Ozimek: the technology revolution is redefining the boundaries
Tony Bennett: comic books are not just for kids
Julian Petley on the prospects for free speech online
Marjorie Heins says the Internet is making the law unworkable
Anne Higonnet on why artists are heading for a collision course
Elena Martellozzo and Helen Taylor assess the impact of child pornography
Seth Finkelstein on the censoring of obscenity online BBFC film examiner Murray Perkins gives the lowdown
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INDEX IN IRAQ
Rohan Jayasekera on Iraq’s year of elections
DISPATCHES
Shahvalad Chobanoglu says independent press in Azerbaijan is struggling to survive
Sanjuana Martinez exposes a culture of censorship in Mexico
Sanjana Hattotuwa explains the chilling effect of legislation in Sri Lanka
THE ART OF OFFENCE
Martin Rowson says breaking taboos is the heart of satire
FICTION: CUBA
Ena Lucia Portela ‘The last passenger’
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