State security officers in Imo state beat Wale Oluoko, a correspondent for Radio Nigeria, was beaten into a comatose state. Oluoko was apparently targeted for his ‘negative coverage’ of Imo state officials during a protest in Owerri in which...
A Cuban man imprisoned after a YouTube incident was transferred to a psychiatric ward on 17 September. Juan Carlos González was sentenced to two years in prison after a video of him drunkenly interrupting a documentary crew to talk about the lack...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is reported to have had brain surgery after being beaten by police. Read more here
Human Rights Watch’s suspension of military analyst Marc Garlasco under Israeli pressure raises questions about its own commitment to free expression, says Richard Silverstein of Tikun Olam
The unsolved killings of 17 journalists has had a chilling effect on the work of Russia’s press, writes Nina Ognianova
Intelligence officials and police shut down freelance journalist Mazen Darwich’s office and confiscated all of its contents on 13 September. The journalist heads the Syrian Centre for Media and Free Expression, Syria’s only NGO specialising in...
Days after the UN chief Ban Ki-Moon condemned the Sri Lankan government’s decision to expel Unicef’s communications officer from the country, new information has been reported in the Guardian that another UN official was expelled from the country....
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned that diplomatic ties with Australia "may be harmed" by a war crimes inquiry into the deaths of five journalists killed in East Timor in 1975. Recent investigations have indicated that senior...
On 10 September four men suspected of killing Franco-Spanish journalist Christian Poveda in El Salvador were arrested. One of suspects is a police officer. The other three are members of Mara 18, a street gang that Poveda filmed for this 2008...
An account of the investigation into the disappearance Madeleine McCann investigation by a former Portuguese investigator on the case has been banned from further publication in Portugal. The Truth of the Lie by Goncalo Amaral claimed that...