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Sherry Jones’s controversial The Jewel of Medina is to go on sale again in Serbia, having been withdrawn in July.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...
A programme investigating the murder of Ingushetiya.ru founder Magomed Yevloyev was withdrawn last from Russian TV station NTV's schedule last Sunday. According to the website, the station claimed the programme was not broadcast for 'technical...
Indian artist MF Husain hes been cleared of obscenity charges over his painting 'Mother India'. Hindu groups had claimed that the painting, featuring a nude posed in the shape of a map of India, was sacrilegious. Read more here
Three members of a television crew from Polish channel Telewizja Polska (TVP) were detained on 8 September near the village Karaleti, between South Ossetia and Georgia. They had been trying to enter the area to report on the expected Russian troop...
A Tehran court has passed six-month prison sentences on four female bloggers, found guilty under article 500 of the Islamic criminal code. The four women were charged for articles that appeared in two online newspapers that defend women’s rights in...