Freelance journalist and human rights activist, Alexandr Podrabinek, has gone into hiding after getting death threats over a controversial article about the government’s defence of the Soviet Union. Podrabinek wrote his controversial article for...
Freedom of expression groups joined forces this month to investigate the obstacles facing independent media in Belarus; censorship made possible by the combination of a number of blunt-edged tools into a deceptively sophisticated system of media control. Rohan Jayasekera comments from Minsk.
On 23 September, the government has announced plans to block 1040 websites, referring to a resolution which states that all telecommunications companies and internet service providers "shall block pornographic websites". Many of the websites to be...
Censorship on both national and international press in Honduras has increased since the return of Manuel Zelaya to the capital Tegucigalpa on 21 September. The international press has been kept away from the pro-Zelaya demonstrations and has been...
Cinemas in the Nigerian capital, Abuja have been asked by the Information Minister Dora Akunyili to stop screening sci-fi blockbuster District 9 as it discriminates against Nigerians by negatively portraying them as violent gangsters and criminals....
Egypt’s Farouk Hosni has lost the vote to head the United Nations Agency for Education, Culture and Science (Unesco) to Bulgarian Irina Bokova. Hosni had been a controversial candidate accused of making book-burning comments last year and for being...
A gay pride parade in Belgrade scheduled for 22 September was called off after police told organisers that they could not guarantee their safety. The decision came after a wave of homophobic graffiti scrawled by across city walls by...
On 14 September Jesús Hernández García, the editor of the Centro Noticias Tamaulipas news website, was threatened and assaulted by officials from the Tamaulipas state government's Health Secretariat and its Environmental Agency. The incident arose...
On 19 September the Swedish newspaper Aftonbadet was cleared of anti-semitism charges by the Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice. The Israeli government had called on Swedish authorities to investigate a story that Aftonbadet published in August. The...
On 21 September, an editor at one of Nigeria’s leading newspapers found murdered in his home in Lagos. Bayo Ohu was the associate political editor of the The Guardian. The killing is thought to have been a targeted attack, as the perpetrators took...