Derek Pasquill, the Foreign Office employee who was tried under the Official Secrets Act after leaking documents to the press, is to challenge his dismissal from his post at the Employment Tribunal. Pasquill was dismissed summarily on the grounds...
At least 60 journalists were arrested by Sudanese police while attending a peaceful protest demanding a new freedom of expression law this morning. The editor of the daily newspaper Ajras Al-Hurriya, Murtada el-Ghali, told AFP "They took us very...
The trials of several men accused of involvement in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya begins in Moscow today. Read more here
A police lieutenant who forcibly took a cameraman’s camera, threw it to the ground and then shot it six times has been found guilty of aggressive behaviour. Read more here
Five climate change protesters who climbed on to the roof of the Palace of Westminster have been found guilty of trespass under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA). Leo Murray, Olivia Chessell, Alexander George, Tamsin Omond and...
Quari Muhammad Shoaib, reporter with the local newspaper Khabar Kar, was shot dead in the Swat Valley by soldiers while driving home in his car on 8 November. Read more here
Nay Phone Latt, a pro-democracy blogger in Burma has been given a 20-year prison sentence for materials posted on his website criticising military leader Than Shwe. He was arrested in January, along with poet Saw Wai, who was sentenced to 2 years...
Shahvrand-e Emrouz ('Today’s Citizen'), an Iranian reformist magazine, has been temporarily closed by the country’s press watchdog after the unauthorised publication of political content. The magazine had been critical of the present...
Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin has been released from jail after a court ruled that the interior minister, Syed Hamid Albar, had overstepped his authority in ordering the detention of Kamaruddin under the country's notorious Internal...
More than 150 Sudanese journalists took part 24-hour hunger strike on 4 November. Three national newspapers have also joined the protest, halting their production for three days. They were protesting against censorship by state security services on...