On 5 March, Silvia Blyden, the publisher of privately owned daily newspaper the Awareness Times, was arrested for allegedly ridiculing President Ernest Bai Koroma. Blyden was later released after several hours in custody. The arrest relates to a...
The House of Lords last night approved amendments to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill that would abolish the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in England and Wales. The last successful prosecution under the law happened in 1977,...
At least eight people were killed and dozens more were injured in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on Saturday following clashes between authorities and protestors gathered in support of the defeated presidential candidate, Levon Ter-Petrosian. The...
Sihem Bensedrine and her husband Omar Mestiri were seized by customs officials upon their arrival at la Goulette port on 3 March. Awarded the 2008 peace prize by the Danish Peace Foundation, Bensedrine is president of the working group on press...
Shahab Al-Tamimi, president of the Iraqi Union of Journalists, has died after being shot last Saturday. Mr Al-Tamimi’s car was attacked by gunmen last Saturday as he left a meeting in Baghdad. His son Rabi was also injured in the attack. Read more...
The makers of Channel 4 documentary Undercover Mosque are to sue West Midlands Police, after the police force claimed the programme makers had edited the film misleadingly. Broadcast regulators OFCOM cleared the documentary of any wrongdoing in...
The imprisonment of journalist Bersihar Lubis shows how colonial-era laws are being used to stifle historical debate in Indonesia, writes David Jardine Alarm bells have been ringing among Indonesian media after a late February verdict against...
Hassan Nobakhtian, the editor of conservative website Nosaki, was arrested on 25 February, despite having had no complaints brought against him. The arrest took place 11 days after Nosaki was banned by Tehran prosecutor-general Said Mortazavi....
The Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has ruled that minutes of cabinet meetings in the days leading up to the Iraq war should be released. Explaining the proposed break in protocol, where cabinet minutes are kept secret, Thomas said the...
Agil Khalilov, a reporter for the Azerbaijani daily paper Azadlig, was beaten whilst filming an illegal land sale. The perpetrators of the attack --- allegedly including a local government representative and ministry official --- beat Khalilov...