10th January 2011
Twitter At Centre of Free Speech Battle
Twitter, the micro-blogging website, has found itself at the centre of a global free speech battle, as the US and China clampdown on the site and target human rights activists and Wikileaks workers.
1st January 2011
US Watching on the Basis of a Single Tip-Off
The United States has been keeping a “watch list” of those which they monitor due to suspicions that they may engage in terrorism-related activity. This list has been kept since 2001, and is a well used tool for US government agencies to track and identify those it suspects to be a danger to US security.
4th December 2010
Capitalist Clampdown on WikiLeaks
It seems that the sometime claim by the free market proponents that a capitalist system prevents an over-authoritarian government from suppressing free speech may not have much truth in it.
22nd September 2010
FBI Monitored Innocent Groups Under "Terrorism" Charge
Numerous groups and individuals were monitored by the FBI in the United States under the reasoning of anti-terrorism powers, yet there was scant evidence that there should have been an investigation in those cases, a review has concluded.
11th September 2010
US Continues Suppression of Justice for Torture Victims
The US Government is continuing its efforts to prevent justice being done for the victims of its extraordinary rendition programme.
