The arrest and detention of a Kiwi journalist lays bare the risks and calculations taken by foreign journalists in Yemen. Iona Craig reports from Sana’a
Kiwi journalist in Yemen prison
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Code breakers
Journalists are being tarnished by the activities of professional privacy invaders. It is time they were renamed and shamed, argues Brian Cathcart
Turkey: Contributors to user-generated dictionary arrested
Istanbul police have arrested 50 contributors to Turkey's largest user-generated dictionary. The "Sour Dictionary" (Eksi Sozluk) site offers satirical definitions of a number of common words and has been running for around 12 years. The anonymous...
Zimbabwe: Editor and reporter arrested for writing “false statements”
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested two journalists from the Sunday Standard newspaper: editor Nevanje Madanhire and reporter Patience Nyangove for publishing allegedly "false statements" about the arrest of a government official. The official,...
Are privacy injunctions a necessary evil?
Max Mosley, Hugh Tomlinson QC, Suzanne Moore and David Price QC debated privacy, free speech and a feral press at Index on Censorship event
India: Journalist beaten by police
Shalabh Mani Tripathi, Bureau Chief of Hindi news channel IBN, has claimed that he was beaten by police for his reporting on a medical officer found dead in a jail hospital. Tripathi alleges that he was dragged into a car, interrogated about his...
France on its way to total Internet censorship?
New laws could could give French authorities web-blocking powers unrivaled in the democratic world. Félix Tréguer reports
Russia: Oleg Kashin defeats libel claim
Russian journalist, Oleg Kashin, has won the right to speculate about the identity of two men who beat him with iron rods. Kashin spent five days in a coma after he was attacked outside his apartmenton 6 November last year. The Kremlin’s youth...
Israeli radio station targeted by fake free speech campaign
Activists have attacked the Army Radio with a bizarre phone message scam, reports Daniella Peled
Sudanese government halts the printing presses
This year has seen the arrest of more than 30 journalists and a popular newspaper prevented from printing five times, reports Abdelgadir Mohamed Abdelgadir