Chinese police have cordened off Tiananmen Square, to prevent people marking the 20th anniversary of the massacre and banned foreign press. Earlier today US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to launch an official inquiry. Read more here
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two US journalists arrested in North Korea earlier in March this year, are reported to have gone on trial in North Korea for charges of committing "hostile acts". The US has dismissed the charges as "baseless". Read...
Afghan journalist, Noorjahan Bahir from a prominent independent radio station in the province of Khost has been arrested by American soldiers. Local journalists demanding the release of Mr Bahir have said they will stop reporting news relating to...
Bestselling author to continue legal fight against British Chiropractic Association
Azerbaijani newspaper editor, Eynulla Fatullayev who was jailed after criticising his government has been given Amnesty International's award for journalism under threat. Read more here
A key witness in the murder case of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze who was found beheaded in 2000, died yesterday after six years in a coma, having never been questionned by officials. Three former police officers were convicted of...
A federal judge has rejected a US government request to keep secret unclassified evidence it says justifies the continued imprisonment of more than 100 Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Read more here
Al-Baghdadia correspondent, Alaa Abdel Wahab was killed outside Mosul, Iraq after a bomb placed underneath his car detenated also injuring a professor who works for a rival TV channel. Later the same evening a similar attack against an Al-Iraqiya...
Poet Liu Hongbin fled China after taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests. Here, he describes his experience of returning to China as a persona non grata in 1997 In the dead of winter 1997, I landed back in Beijing. As I was passing through...
Seven Years With Hard Labour: accounts of Burmese political prisoners
A Sri Lankan journalist and activist is in hospital after being abducted and beaten by unidentified attackers. Read more here
The Chinese authorities have blocked a range of popular social media including blogger, flickr, youtube and twitter ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre on 4 June. Read more here