CONTENTS

1 JO GLANVILLE Editorial

NEWS ANALYSIS 6 ROMAN SHLEINOV The rules of the game

An insight into press freedom in Russia

15 MAUREEN FREELY Why they killed Hrant Dink

Ultra-nationalism is on the rise in Turkey and has found new targets

32 NOURITZA MATOSSIAN Let’s talk about the living

An interview with Hrant Dink

WHAT NEW LABOUR DID FOR FREE SPEECH 46 ALISTAIR BEATON A letter to Tony

A satirist says farewell

49 CONOR GEARTY The Blair report

Assessing the New Labour legacy

56 MANIFESTO: Article 19

A wishlist for free speech

57 PETER WRIGHT The prince and the paper

The Mail on Sunday’s battle to publish Prince Charles’s journals

63 A L KENNEDY Watch your language

Rescuing the meaning of words from spin and spivs

MARTIN ROWSON Stripsearch 75 MANIFESTO: Amnesty International

Fair inquiries

76 DAVID LEIGH Public nuisance

The Freedom of Information Act isn’t popular with everyone

81 MANIFESTO: Kenan Malik

Don’t incite censorship

82 OLIVER KAMM The tyranny of moderation

Too much respect is a bad thing

90 MANIFESTO: Jonathan Heawood

Time to legislate for free expression

91 YASMIN WHITTAKER-KHAN Saying the unsayable

Speaking out is the best way to fight injustice

Credit: Nour, Basra Index on Censorship/Open Shutters

4 INDEX ON CENSORSHIP 02 2007 102 MANIFESTO: Milan Rai

In praise of the right to protest

103 ANTHONY LESTER Redefining terror

New speech crimes are a threat to free expression

108 MARTIN BRIGHT Secrets and sources

Leaks, lies and whistleblowers

113 MANIFESTO: Shami Chakrabarti

More sense, less law

114 NASAR MEER Less equal than others

Muslims are caught in a legal limbo

123 MANIFESTO: Sonja Linden

Reclaim asylum

124 A C GRAYLING Tolerating intolerance

Free speech depends on it

131 MANIFESTO: Matt Foot

Scrap the Asbo

132 JULIAN PETLEY Old Labour, new morality

Out with the Swinging Sixties, in with zero tolerance

141 PETER NOORLANDER Chronology of free expression

A journey through the decade

CULTURE 146 THE BELIEVERS Duncan Pickstock

Portraits of people who dedicate their lives to a cause

158 CLAUDIA RODEN Remembering Mai Ghoussoub

A tribute to the artist, publisher and writer

161 MAI GHOUSSOUB Leaving Beirut

An extract from the memoir

166 EUGENIE DOLBERG Open Shutters: Iraq

The story of a unique photographic project FLASHPOINT 185 NAWAL EL SAADAWI on the campaign to prosecute her for insulting Islam 188 INDEX INDEX 207 FARID TUKHBATULLIN After Turkmenbashi

The future for Turkmenistan

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