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As the amount of the internet users grows rapidly each year all over the world, the internet becomes more powerful tool to express one’s opinion. The online activity is more visible; it affects more people and is treated as a real behaviour, not the virtual one. There is an obvious change of perception of the internet recently. The proof of it is imprisonment of two social network users in UK and three internet writers in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Vietnam.

The 2011 Rafto Prize laureate will be announced at a press conference at the Rafto Human Rights House in Bergen, Norway.

This year’s big AFS happening will take place on 28-30 October at Sørmarka Conference Centre in Norway. AFS welcomes new and old volunteers to a rich and social weekend!

15 November is marked every year by PEN centers around the world as “day of imprisoned writers.”

The seminar will focus on the situation of women in general and women writers in particular.

The seminar will be about freedom of expression in Afghanistan, the plight of Afghan writers and the Authors’ House in Kabul, including the house’s general manager, Waheed Warasta.

Index on Censorship will be at all three of the main UK political parties’ conferences speaking about press freedom in light of the phone hacking scandal, recent concerns over privacy law and super-injunctions and our on-going Libel Reform Campaign.

Journalists examine what freedoms have been lost ten years after the World Trade Centre collapsed in the face of terror.

‘The Colonel’ is banned in its native Iran, where the office of censorship has prohibited publication.

The six-part introductory course examines the basic question of where should be drawn the line between acceptable and unacceptable expression.

It has come to the attention of the HFHR that in June 2011 the Polish Prosecutor General’s Office has provided Belarusian authorities with details of the Polish bank accounts held in the name of Ales Belyatsky, head of the Human Rights Centre Vesna, a Belarusian human rights advocacy. We have received these disturbing news from Mr Belyatsky’s associates.

Another hearing in the case for personal interests infringement brought against A.J. was held before the Circuit Court in Tarnów. The claimant, mayor of the town of Ryglice, asserts that he lost the local elections because of an insulting comment of an anonymous user that had been posted under an article at the respondent’s blog. He makes his claim even though A.J. almost instantly blocked the comment.