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...
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