Nov'07
25
Access Denied
Amnesty’s been campaigning on internet repression for some time as part of their Irrepressible Info campaign.
Global Voice’s excellent Accessed Denied map charts censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 websites such as blogs, wikipedia, youtube and flickr.
Nov'07
23
Detention without charge
When the former Attorney General says that he would have resigned rather than vote for an extension to ninety days, and the Director of Public Prosecutions says that the case for an extension has not been made, it does make you wonder how the government will continue to justify its plans.
Nov'07
12
Detention without charge
A Liberty study has found that the current period of detention without trial in the UK, twenty-eight days, is longer than exists in any comparable democracy, including the US and Turkey.
And yet the government have made clear their plans to extend the period for which terror suspects can be detained without being charged. If every […]