Four journalists have been shot amidst clashes between Red Shirt protestors and the military in the past week. One Canadian reporter and three Thai press workers were wounded whilst covering the escalating protests in Bangkok. Meanwhile Maj-Gen...
President Obama is to sign the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act today. The bill is designed to identify countries where press freedom is being violated, as well as promoting, protecting and “strengthening the independence of journalists and media...
The Kuwaiti media have been banned from reporting on the dismantling of an Iranian spy network by prosecutor-general Hamed Saleh Al-Othman. The spy ring--- which was publicly revealed on 1 May--- was gathering information about Kuwaiti and US...
Egyptian author Youssef Ziedan faces a five-year jail term after being accused of insulting Christianity in his prize-winning novel Azazeel (Beelzebub). Set in 5th-century Egypt, Alexandria and northern Syria, Ziedan's novel tells the story of an...
Why has the Left become so illiberal? Compass Conference 2010, 12 June
EPIC Short Films- Georgian Film Night, 14 May
On 7 May, two newspaper employees were fined over an article criticising the Turkish army’s system of patronage. Over 300 army generals sued the pro-Islamic Vakit newspaper for libel over an article entitled “The country where people who cannot...
Two journalists were barred yesterday from the trial of a party activist who hung up a white-red-white flag. Syarhei Serabro and Uladzimir Staraverau of the Narodnye Novosti Vitebska newspaper were told by police that they did not have permission...
The body of 30-year-old journalist Ghulam Rasool Birhamani was found by police outside Dadu on 10 May. According to the president of the Dadu Press Club, the reporter for the Sindhu Hyderabad daily newspaper had been threatened by members of the...
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that journalists do not have the constitutional right to protect the identity of their sources. The judgment means the question of whether a reporter must reveal their sources should be decided on a case-by-case...
Hundreds of university students assaulted a local parliament building in Erbil, the capital of Iraqs semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on 10 May. The students were taking part in an angry protest against the abduction and killing of Kurdish student...
On 6 May, a US federal judge ruled that Chevron could subpoena footage from "Crude", a documentary about the company's involvement in the pollution of the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador. Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in favour of Chevron's request to...