The imprisonment of journalist Bersihar Lubis shows how colonial-era laws are being used to stifle historical debate in Indonesia, writes David Jardine Alarm bells have been ringing among Indonesian media after a late February verdict against...
The Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has ruled that minutes of cabinet meetings in the days leading up to the Iraq war should be released. Explaining the proposed break in protocol, where cabinet minutes are kept secret, Thomas said the...
Agil Khalilov, a reporter for the Azerbaijani daily paper Azadlig, was beaten whilst filming an illegal land sale. The perpetrators of the attack --- allegedly including a local government representative and ministry official --- beat Khalilov...
Independent Serbian broadcaster B92 has received emails and messages of death treats through its website forum. A video posted on YouTube portrayed two B92 presenters being shot dead. The perpetrators accused the radio station of being unpatriotic...
Journalists at Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) have been warned by management not to cover criticism of constitutional change. A CRTV radio presenter was suspended and banned from going on air after he aired a song critical of African leaders...
Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy has been found in contempt for violating a court order to reveal her confidential sources. Locy is being pressed to reveal her sources in Dr Steven Hatfill’s civil case against the federal government. Hatfill, a...
The release of a draft of the British government’s dossier on Iraqi weapons confirms suspicions but also raises more questions, writes Chris Ames Monday’s release of the John Williams draft of the Iraq “weapons of mass destruction” dossier shows...
Finnish blogger Matti Nikki is facing an investigation into whether he aided the distribution of child pornography. The anti-censorship campaigner's website, on which he published a list of over 1,500 websites that have been blocked by the Finnish...
Publication of magazine weekly Myanmar Nation has been suspended following the arrest of the paper’s chief editor, Thet Zin and manager, Sein Win Maung on 15 February. The two were taken into custody after a police search of their offices found a...
A poster advertising a new play has been banned from Angel underground station in London after regulators decided it was “likely to offend ethnic, religious or other major groups”. The poster, for the play Fat Christ by Gavin Davis, shows the...
Iran’s Commission for Press Authorisation and Surveillance has suspended feminist monthly Zanan (Women) for “publishing information detrimental to society’s psychological tranquillity”. Hengameh Golestan reports Zanan has been published regularly...
In recent weeks there have been many arrests and convictions in Turkey citing the archaic Penal Code which is used to curtail freedom of expression. Here are some of the more alarming cases Professor Attila Yayla was convicted on 28 January of...