Hundreds of protesters have attacked a private television company in Tunisia in protest over the broadcast of the award winning film "Persepolis." The protesters, who believe that the animated film denigrates Islam, attacked the TV station Nessma...
The head of the press censorship department in Burma has called for greater media freedom in the country. Tint Swe called for the abolition of censorship during a radio show with Radio Free Asia. Recent reforms under the new administration are...
A newspaper editor was shot on Friday while driving through the Philippines' main island, Luzon. Johnson Pascual, editor-in-chief of local newspaper, Prime News, was shot by two men on a motorcycle in Isabela province, Northern Philippines on...
Pro-Chavez Hackers in Venezuela have targeted the emails and social media accounts of journalists. Milagros Socorro, director of the site Código Venezuela, announced that hackers attacked her blog, Twitter and emails after criticising President...
The body of a journalist working for a London-based online news site has been discovered by police in Pakistan. Faisal Qureshi, 28, who was working as web-editor for internet publication the London Post, was discovered on Friday morning in Lahore,...
Increasingly strict media regulations are being applied to dating shows in China. Shows such as "If you are the one," which have been highly successful in the country, are being subjected to regulations from the State Administration of Radio Film...
An initially banned horror film has been given an "18" rating, after a number of cuts. Human Centipede 2 was originally banned in the UK for posing a "real risk of harm," in June, but after 32 cuts, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) ...
A draft law has been published by the Slovakian Ministry of Finance which could result in the blocking of some web servers. The bill would mean that web servers that provide online gambling without a license would be put on a list, which would be...
Two citizen journalists face trial in Vietnam today for operating pirate radio to China. Vu Duc Trung and Le Van Thanh face charges of illegally retransmitting radio programmes after they began broadcasting Chinese-language programmes from Sound...
Several Egyptian writers and journalists published blank columns in the country's newspapers, in protest against the "military interference" of the press. A number of independent writers, including Belal Fadl, Naglaa Bedir and Tarek...
A Radio Free Europe correspondent in Turkmenistan has been sentenced to five years in prison. Dovletmurad Yazguliyev was sentenced yesterday on charges of inciting his sister-in-law to attempt to commit suicide. Yazguliyev was detained on 27...
Wikipedia have shut down their Italian language page in protest against a wiretapping act being proposed to the country's parliament. The proposed law would require websites to publish within 48 hours a correction or comment relating to any content...