Cuban journalists Jose Ramon and Alejandro Gonzalez, dissident Omar Pernet and trade unionist Pedro Alvarez were released on 16 February. They had been arrested and detained during the 2003 crackdown on the opposition. The four released prisoners...
Despite the extension of her visa, novelist Taslima Nasrin remains confined to a room in an undisclosed location, writes Sanal Edamaruku The good news first: India has granted a visa extension to exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin. For now,...
Novelist Taslima Nasrin, in exile in India after her writings led to threats in her native Bangladesh, has had her visa extended by the Indian government. A statement from the Indian government said: "The Government of India has decided to extend...
Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz has been asked to investigate independent TV station Globovision, after allegations it had "undermined" President Hugo Chavez by broadcasting a news report that showed him chewing coca leaves. Read more...
Security officials in Sudan yesterday blocked the publication of opposition newspaper al-Rai al Shaab, because of articles on the alleged support provided by the Sudanese government for recent rebels attacks in Chad. The Khartoum government has...
Arab countries have agreed to allow authorities to punish satellite television channels considered to have insulted national or religious leaders and symbols. Of the countries present at an Arab League meeting in Cairo, 21 signed the document...
Five young British men who were convicted after being found in possession of jihadist literature have won their appeal against the decision. Irfan Raja, Awaab Iqbal, Aitzaz Zafar, Usman Malik and Akbar Butt were convicted at an Old Bailey court...
Calls for Indonesian journalists to rein themselves in are a reminder of the bad old days of Suharto, writes David Jardine President Yudhoyono of Indonesia last week called on the national media to practice more self-censorship. Using an open-air...
A journalist was shot dead in Algeciras as Colombia celebrated the national Day of the Journalist. Manuel Arturo Macías Cerrera was shot in the head on his way home, and died shortly afterwards. As well as working as a reporter on a daily news...
Danish police today arrested three people allegedly plotting to murder cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Westergaard was one of the artists responsible for the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that caused controversy throughout the Islamic world when...