The arrest and detention of a Kiwi journalist lays bare the risks and calculations taken by foreign journalists in Yemen. Iona Craig reports from Sana’a
Kiwi journalist in Yemen prison
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Index on Censorship
US: Judge refuses subpoena for blogger’s identity
Ronald Papandrea, a former assistant attorney of Warren, Michigan has dropped a libel case against an anonymous blogger known as 'Robert' after the local judge turned down his request to obtain the blogger's name. Papandrea claimed the blogger had...
Uganda: Radio presenter begins community service for privacy intrusion
Radio presenter in Uganda, Philips Ogile, yesterday began a two-month community service sentence after he was convicted of privacy intrusion. In January 2007 Ogile took, and later published, a photograph of a woman stripped and searched by law...
Uzbekistan: Journalists fined and detained for press censorship protest
Uzbek journalists, Malohat Eshonqulova and Saodat Omonova, have been detained and fined 2.94 million soms (around £1000) for holding an unauthorized protest on Monday morning. The two women, who have now begun a hunger strike, held up placards in...
Malaysian activists detained for planning rally
Malaysian authorities arrested and detained 30 opposition members for planning a protest rally to be held on 9 July. The Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, claimed the activists were communists conspiring to overthrow the government.
PAST EVENT: 5 July: World Within World – Stephen Spender
5 July: World Within World – Stephen Spender
Pakistan: Campaign against blasphemy abuse goes on
As another person is sentenced to death for defiling Islam’s prophet, Khalid Khattak reports on the continuing debate on the much-abused blasphemy law
Hu Jia released but not free
After serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for inciting subversion, Chinese activist Hu Jia was sent home on Sunday. But like Ai Weiwei, who surfaced from detention last week, Hu is far from free. His wife told the BBC that he is being held...
France on its way to total Internet censorship?
New laws could could give French authorities web-blocking powers unrivaled in the democratic world. Félix Tréguer reports
Ai Weiwei’s jailed colleagues are freed
When dissident artist Ai Weiwei was freed last Wednesday, his four associates were also nabbed back in April, were disturbingly absent. Now it seems that those four --- his driver, accountant, assistant and a designer --- have also been released,...
Belarus: Protesters use social media to organise co-ordinate efforts
Activists used popular Russian social network, Vkontakte, and Twitter hashtag, #2206v1900, to organise protest action in towns all over Belarus on 22 June. Over 1, 000 people gathered for a rally in Minsk despite warnings to would-be protesters...
China: Imprisoned journalist faces another 8 years
Just two weeks shy of his release, imprisoned journalist Qi Chonghuai, has now been sentenced to another eight years on charges of embezzlement, extortion, and blackmail after a 9 June retrial. He was first arrested in 2007 after writing a newstory...