Conservative MP Damian Green and civil servant Christopher Galley will not face charges relating to leaks of government documents after Director of Public Prosecutions Kier Starmer QC found that the leaks did not endanger security. Read more here
The Supreme Court of Indonesia has overturned a £62 million libel ruling against Time magazine relating to claims that the late President Suharto had amassed a fortune through corruption. Index on Censorship and other media organisations and NGOs...
An inquiry into police tactics at protests is to be set up following criticism of the handling of the G20 protests in London. Read more here
Award-winning ABC journalist Sean Dorney has arrived in Australia after being deported from Fiji, as the military there cracks down on the media. Read more here
The trial of journalist Roxana Saberi, accused of espionage, began in Tehran yesterday. Read more here
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been charged with espionage by the Iranian authorities. Read more here
Muntadar al Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist convicted after he threw a shoe at President George Bush, has had his jail sentence reduced from three years to one year. Read more here
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has unanimously approved an initiative to make crimes against journalists a federal offence. The text establishes that anyone who commits an illegal action under criminal law with the objective of hindering, interfering...
April 6 was named a day of 'anger' by Egyptian Internet users fighting the state of emergency law that prevents them from expressing themselves freely. The authorities have steadily increased the surveillance of bloggers. According to RSF, In 2008...
Democratic Unionist Party Ian Paisley Jr has been served a High Court order to reveal a source who informed him of the alleged destruction of files by members of the prison service. The files were related to the murder of Loyalist Volunteer Force...