Amnesty award winning Yemeni journalist Abdul Kareem al Khaiwani has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for 'disseminating pro-rebel propaganda', despite receiving a pardon from the president in September last year. Read more here
The editor of the privately-owned weekly Rivira, Upali Tennakoon and his wife were attacked by four men on motorcycles near Colombo on 23 Jan as they drove to work. Mr Tennakoon and his wife both sustained injuries, but neither were said to be in a...
Sky News has informed the Disasters Emergency Committee that it will not be broadcasting an appeal for humanitarian aid for Gaza. John Ryley, the head of Sky News, said: 'The absolute impartiality of our output is fundamental to Sky News and its...
Alexander Lebedev has announced that he has requested journalists on his Novaya Gazeta newspaper be allowed to carry guns. Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova was killed on Monday. Read more here
The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) is demanding that authorities ban R&B star Rihanna’s concert to be held in Kuala Lumpur on 13 February. PAS alleges that her revealing outfits and suggestive dance moves are an insult to Asian values and...
A Dutch court has ordered the prosecution of Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims. The charges relate to Fitna, a film he made last year in which he compared the Quran to Mein Kampf and drew a...
Giles Ji Ungpakorn, professor of political science at the University of Chulalonkorn, has been charged with insulting the king in his book A Coup for the Rich, published in 2007. The book deals with the 2006 ousting of Prime Minister Thaksin...
The murder of Anastasiya Baburova (right) and Stanislav Markelov is part of a brutal trend. Russians who stand up for human rights may pay with their lives, says Tanya Lokshina It was an exceptionally fine day on 19 January. Sun, a rare guest in...
Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova died in hospital yesterday evening after being shot in the head in central Moscow yesterday. Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov was also killed in the attack. Read more here
Anastasiya Baburova, a reporter for Novaya Gazeta, the Russian newspaper funded by Alexander Lebedev, was seriously wounded in a shooting incident in Moscow earlier today. Baburova was travelling with lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who was killed in...