The bitterly polarised controversy over the status of transgender people has spawned attacks on freedom of thought and speech at British and South African universities
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/ 20 September 2009
In the past decade alone, at least 17 journalists in Russia have been killed. Someone is getting away with murdering journalists.
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/ 16 October 2007
Eritrea has taken over from North Korea as the country in the world where press rights are least respected, the Paris-based campaigning group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said on Tuesday. North Korea and Turkmenistan are runners-up in RSF’s annual poll of shame of 169 countries.
Russia’s chief prosecutor, Yuri Chaika, announced on Monday that 10 people had been arrested in connection with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, which he blamed on a Chechen Mafia boss and rogue elements in Russia’s security services. But he hinted that the real mastermind behind the plot was a Russian citizen living abroad.