Creating national networks will shackle the internet, inherently change its technical infrastructure, throttle innovation, and likely lead to far more dangerous privacy violations around the globe, Leslie Harris of Center for Democracy & Technology writes
Journalists were attacked by pro-Morsi protesters as the trial of the deposed president and 14 other Muslim Brotherhood leaders opened in Cairo on Monday morning. The tension on the streets of the Egyptian capital was palpable, Shahira Amin writes
Police raids offices of independent watchdog that reported on irregularities surrounding the recent Azerbaijani election
In light of the UK’s Royal Charter on newspaper regulation, we look at 10 countries where the government has a hand in controlling the press
Keeping tight control over every sphere of social life is the general policy of the Belarusian authorities. This is true not only about politics, economy or media; arts and culture face censorship as well. Zmitser Yanenka reports from Belarus
A Russian court pulled the license of Rosbalt Information Agency after warnings over the use of “obscene” videos in its reports, Andrei Aliaksandrau reports
The press was last state licensed in 1643. But what others laws affected British citizens at the time?
Anger at the new series of “Egyptian Jon Stewart’s” TV show reflects the country’s deepening divisions, reports Shahira Amin
Hamza Kashgari was detained for 625 days for tweeting a mock conversation between himself and the prophet Mohammed. Milana Knezevic reports
Poland’s first non-Communist premier died today. In 1995, he spoke to Index on Censorship magazine about his decision to resign as Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights in former Yugoslavia