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Marta Cooper: Crime reporters express fear over limited police contact THE FREE SPEECH BLOG

Pakistan Today reports that on Friday a court in the Pakistani city of Kasur imposed a life sentence and a fine equivalent to 00 (US) for blasphemy on Police Station House Officer Manzarul Haq Shah Jahan.  The complaint against Jahan, alleging violation of Sec. 295C of the Pakistan Penal Code, was filed by Muhammad Younis who said [...]

Julia Farrington: Elected police commanders must guarantee free expression The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

Following the riots and looting in London and other parts of England last week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron  made a strong statement indicating his government is looking into the legal and technical means to limit access to Blackberry Messenger, even Twitter and Facebook to stop “violence”. So we are working with the Police, the [...]

Written by Cameran Ashraf National Public Radio reports that Iran is planning on dispatching “cyber police” across the country with General Ahmadi Moghaddam stating that “There is no time to wait” in deploying the Islamic Republic's latest line of defense against its real and perceived enemies. This isn't the first time Moghaddam has claimed to [...]

          In Zia Trust Company v. Montoya,  2010 U.S. App. Lexis 5016 (March 9, 2010), the child of a victim of police use of deadly force brought a lawsuit against the police officer and Dona Ana County.  In this police shooting case, the police officer filed a motion for summary judgment in [...]

ABP last week reported on a settlement in Rich v. City of Jacksonville, a Florida federal court lawsuit by a blogger against against a sheriff’s office official and an assistant state attorney charging free speech and Establishment Clause violations. Tom Rich began an anonymous blog on which he raised concerns about the pastor of First Baptist Church [...]

On January 27, 2009, an Albuquerque jury returned a verdict in a wrongful arrest claim against a City of Albuquerque police officer in the amount of 00.  In his claim, Mr. Richard Mora of Albuquerque stated that Albuquerque police officers unlawfully ordered him from his home and then one officer unlawfully patted him down. The [...]