Kyrgyzstan's Central Elections Committee (CEC) has decided to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October presidential election. Eleven news sites have been denied accreditation to inform voters on...
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News of the World hacked Sarah Payne’s mother’s phone
The Guardian has revealed that the News of the World hacked Sara Payne's phone, which Rebekah Brooks had given her as a gift. Payne had previously been told, accurately, that her name did not appear in Glenn Mulcaire's notes, but her personal...
Brazil: controversial Serbian film banned from RioFan festival
The controversial 'A Serbian Film' has been banned from being screened at the RioFan film festival by the event's main sponsor, Brazilian national bank Caixa Econômica Federal. A statement on the festival's website says organisers were given no...
Hrant Dink’s murderer sentenced to 22 years
The Turkish-Armenian editor’s assassin has been imprisoned, but questions about wider plot remain. Kaya Genç reports
Mexico: missing crime reporter found dead
The decapitated body of Yolanda Ordaz, a reporter for regional paper Notiver, has been found in the Mexican city of Veracruz two days after she went missing. Ordaz had reportedly been investigating the 20th June murder of her colleague, columnist...
Belarus protesters rally on the web
Olga Birukova examines the online activism that is keeping pressure on Lukashenko
Malawi: journalists beaten and detained to prevent them covering protests
Reporters Without Borders has revealed several journalists covering Malawi's recent protests have been beaten and detained, while the government has banned radio stations from covering the demonstrations. The protests were in place to express...
Israel’s anti-boycott law a grave threat to free expression
Miri Weingarten explains the undemocratic new legislation that has been criticised in Israel and abroad
An open letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary
Index on Censorship calls for the release of film maker Mahnaz Mohammadi and actress and documentary maker
Pegah Ahangarani
Honduras: Radio station director killed
A 26-year-old radio station director was killed yesterday in Honduras. Nery Jeremias Orellana was stopped and shot in the head by masked gunmen as he rode home from work on a motorcycle. He died soon after he was taken to a local hospital. A...
