Posted by chrysadag | Sep 3, 2013 | International Director's Column |
We should not underestate the seriousness of the government’s attacks on those seeking to expose its surveillance secrets. At stake is not only what the state is entitled to do to the public, but what journalists are...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Aug 30, 2013 | International Director's Column |
Speech by William Horsley’ delivered during the special Hearing of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Media Freedom in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. Read more: The state of media freedom in...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Jun 23, 2013 | International Director's Column |
June 2013 may go down as the month when Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost the image of political invincibility that helped him to win three landslide elections and mould the country in his image. If so, he may...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Dec 9, 2012 | International Director's Column |
A cold shower on Brian Leveson’s blueprint for restraining the British press has come from the secretary-general of the Council of Europe. Thorbjorn Jagland has told the FT “You do not need a new law to say that phone hacking is...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Mar 26, 2012 | International Director's Column |
William Horsley’s full text of statement on the discussion on Approval of UN Plan of Action on safety of journalists and the issue of impunity. William Horsley: The Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of...
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