Ofcom has fined the BBC £150,000 for breaches of the broadcasting code on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show in October. An Ofcom statement said: 'The scale of the fine reflects the extraordinary nature and seriousness of the BBC's failures and the...
Suwicha Thakhor, a Thai blogger, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment after pleading guilt to lèse majesté charges. Thakhor is alleged to have posted anti-monarchy comments and pictures on his blog.
Rafael Munguina Ortiz, a 52-year-old radio journalist from Radio Candena Voces, was shot and killed on Monday 30 March. He had recently been reporting on violence and organised crime in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, where he was killed. He...
Four Dutch journalists were detained whilst covering a demonstration in the eastern province of Papua. The demonstration was held on 24 March to welcome back Nicholas Jouwe, one of the founders of the free Papua Movement (OPM) that has lived in...
Australia’s Seven Network has censored a lesbian kissing scene in soap opera Home and Away due to air tonight, after a number of complaints were received. 100,000 viewers have switched off ince the storyline started two weeks ago. Read more here
Evening Standard and Novaya Gazeta owner Alexander Lebedev is to sue Forbes magazine for libel after it claimed he had lost $2.5 billlion in the financial crisis. Read more here
A youth orchestra from Jenin in the West Bank has been disbanded after its conductor arranged a concert for Holocaust survivors in Israel. Read more here
The Australian National Classification Board’s website was hacked into just before Senator Stephen Conroy went onto television to defended the government’s internet filtering scheme on 29 March. In the broadcast, Conroy claimed the website was...
As UK citizens prepare to exercise their freedom of expression at demonstrations during the upcoming week of the G20 summit, the media continues to warn of imminent riots, while most protest groups assert that violence will not be used. Fears of...
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, has announced that she has referred the case of UK resident Binyam Mohammed to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The ex-Guantanamo detainee claims that an MI5 agent, known as ‘witness B’, was complicit...