Geng He, the wife of Gao Zhisheng, a prominent Chinese dissident who disappeared in February 2009, said late Wednesday that she had not heard from her husband even though Chinese officials had told a human rights group recently that Gao had been in...
Sergei Shvedko, chief editor of the Rodnoye Priyapovye, is to go on trial for expressing doubts that the Holodomor --- the 1930s famine in which millions of Ukranian starved to death because of the policies of Joseph Stalin --- was genocide aimed...
Laws were revised late last Friday forbidding journalists from filming, recording or photographing subjects without their express permission. Parliamentarian Panah Huseynov claims this is a move to restrict the freedom of press and announced he...
Burma's junta has released the co-founder of the National League for Democracy, Tin Oo after nearly seven years in detention. Tin, who established the League with Aung San Suu Kyi, has been granted freedom shortly before a UN envoy is due to visit...
Mallam Tukur, editor and publisher of Desert Herald, an independent weekly in Kaduna state, has been arrested and threatened with prosecution on defamation charges. The Committee to Protect Journalists claim the threats are related to a recent...
France's has fast-tracked a law allowing the government to block websites. Amendments seeking judicial oversight and clauses specifying pages not sites should be blocked were rejected. The law has been classified as urgent, bypassing the normal...
Chinese authorities have told the US human rights group, the Dui Hua Foundation, that Gao Zhisheng - a human rights lawyer who has been missing for more than a year - is in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Zhisheng's case has drawn international attention due to...
Hackers took control of the website of Agos, a leading Turkish-Armenian newspaper last Friday, the cyber-attackers uploaded images of the alleged murderer of the newspaper’s former editor-in-chief, and winner of the Index on Censorship’s 2008...
British freelance journalist and documentary film maker Paul Martin was detained at a Gaza courthouse yesterday on the orders of Hamas officials. According to a Ministry of Interior Spokesman Martin - who has worked for the BBC and the Time - is...
Christopher Handley, 39-year-old office worker, was sentenced on 11 february to six months in prison for mailing obscene matter, and “possession of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children." Following this sentence, Handley...
Laws protecting journalists and their sources are to be proposed next Tuesday. Julian Assange, editor of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, has been advising parliamentarians and believes the parliament is receptive to the need for change. If the...
Prime minister Silvio Belusconi's party has pushed through rules which will drastically circumscribe political content during the run-up to Italy's regional elections. State broadcasters must now either accommodate over 30 political parties on...