Well-known blogger Syed Azidi Syed Abdul Aziz, also known as Kickdefella, was arrested at his home on 17 September under the Sedition Act. The arrest came after he posted blog entries in which he severely criticised the country’s political and...
Four men appeared in court in Northern Ireland on 16 September to face charges relating to the 2001 murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan. Neil Hyde and Nigel William Leckey were accused of shooting him dead, while Robin Andrew King and...
Channels TV was shut down by Nigerian security services on 16 September, after running a story claiming the president would be resigning due to health reasons. The government claims the story is untrue. News Agency of Nigeria, which had first...
Blogger and journalist Ziad El Heni last week filed a lawsuit against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking the social networking website Facebook. He sees the blocking, which took place on 18 August, as a violation of his rights to freedom of...
Tesco has dropped its legal action against the Guardian after the newspaper published a front-page apology and assented to paying Tesco’s damages to a charity of its choice, as well as its costs. The apology was also published on the Guardian’s...
Four employees of privately-owned TV station Al Sharqiya were murdered on 13 September in the northern city of Mosul. Three journalists, Musab al Azawi, Ahmed Salem and Ihab Maad, along with driver Qaidar Suleiman, were kidnapped by gunmen at...
Sherry Jones’s controversial The Jewel of Medina is to go on sale again in Serbia, having been withdrawn in July. The director of Boebook publishing company Aleksandar Jasic, commented on the change of direction by stating that ‘it would be good...
A cousin of Ingush president Murat Zyazikov was shot dead on Wednesday (10 September), amid fears that the fallout from the muder of Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev could lead to more killing. The family of Yevloyev has declared a vendetta...
Controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders, along with Danish editors and a cartoonist involved in the Mohammed cartoons controversy, has been charged with 'blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings' in Jordan. Read more here
Journalist Radhika Devakumar narrowly escaped death on 8 September after being shot at three times in her own house in Batticaloa. An unknown group of gunmen entered her house and left her severely injured after shooting her in the abdomen, chest...