Members of the Sufi group, Ahlu Sunna Waljama (ASWJ), shut down Radio Dhusamareb of central Somalia on Wednesday evening. Seven masked intruders forced staff to evacuate the building and the station’s editor was arrested and taken into custody. He...
Journalist and political leader, Edinaldo Figueira, was shot to death on 15 June. He founded a Brazilian newspaper and was president of a branch of the Workers' Party in Brazil's northern state of Rio Grande do Norte. He also blogged regularly on...
Open justice: Admission to Assange hearing ‘by ticket only’
Syrian anti-government protesters in London have received threatening phone calls and house visits from Syrian embassy officials, they claim. Though the protesters cannot be arrested by embassy officials, the government can threaten to detain...
Afaq.tv cameraman, Salem Alwan Al-Gharabi, was killed in a suicide bomb attack in southern Iraq on Tuesday. At least 27 people were killed in the double car bomb attack outside a government compound in Diwaniya, a city 275 km south of Baghdad....
Activists have attacked the Army Radio with a bizarre phone message scam, reports Daniella Peled
This year has seen the arrest of more than 30 journalists and a popular newspaper prevented from printing five times, reports Abdelgadir Mohamed Abdelgadir
A website allowing Chinese citizens to blow the whistle on official bribery, www.ibribery.com, has been shut down. Site creator Chen Hong copied the idea from Indian site ipaidabribe.com. Censors blocked access to Hong's site after it received 200,...
Swazi journalist Mancoba Nxumalo was held by police on Wednesday (22 June) and accused of "tarnishing" the Kingdom's image, he has claimed. The journalist believes he was targeted for arranging interviews for South African broadcaster SABC with two...
The controversial Dutch politician has avoided punishment for expressing his views on Islam. But his trials are far from over, Sander Zurhake
Activists are accused of belonging to a secret network, but the court has failed to prove its existence or even its name, says Saeed al-Shehabi, chairman of the Bahrain Freedom Movement – and sentenced in absentia
Reaction from Maryam Alkhawaja whose father and uncle are among those convicted
Leaked documents have revealed British government plans that could seriously affect web users. Peter Bradwell reports