The United States' sanctions against Belarus have been extended for one year in the hope of pushing for democratic reform. A White House spokesman reported that the executive order stood in opposition to corruption, censorship and human rights...
Turkey’s Internet censorship hit the news this week when the country’s own president raised his objections to the policy on Twitter. Yaman Akdeniz explains the state’s recent struggles with Google and YouTube
Iran’s green movement will be reborn in small media, says Mahmood Enayat
Irfan Atkan has been sentenced to 15 months in prison under Turkey’s draconian anti-terror laws
Turkish journalist, Nedim Şener has been acquitted following his prosecution for alleging police negligence in his book “The Dink Murder and the Intelligence Lies” with respect to the murder of Turkish-Armenian reporter Hrant Dink. Accused of a...
Police in Somaliland arrested three journalists and six others last Wednesday (2 June), after activists leased a house next to that of the region's president and used it to display a flag in support of the opposition Kulmiye party. Speaking from...
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted that he had given a classified US combat video and top secret State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks. Brad Manning is alleged to have leaked a video...
Two employees of Turkey's Express periodical have been convicted of "making propaganda for a terrorist organisation". Journalist Irfan Aktan was sentenced to 15 months in prison while editorial manager Merve Erol was fined TL 16,000 (€ 8,000). The...
A pro-opposition journalist arrested and detained on 2 June has been released. Ani Gevorgian was covering a sit-in for the daily national newspaper Haykakan Zhanamak when police clashed with protesters and arrested 17 people. Police allege she...
Two policemen have been arrested, and the country's most senior policeman suspended from duty, after the death of a human rights activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Voice of the Voiceless" campaigner Floribert Chebeya, whose body was...