Paul Cobb, publisher of the Oakland Post newspaper, has been placed under police protection after being told a contract has been put out for his murder. The editor of the Oakland Post, Chauncey Bailey, was assassinated in August of last year.
Iran’s Commission for Press Authorisation and Surveillance has suspended feminist monthly Zanan (Women) for “publishing information detrimental to society’s psychological tranquillity”. Hengameh Golestan reports Zanan has been published regularly...
A bill submitted to parliament by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in late 2007 is garnering criticism for curbing press freedom. Slovakia’s opposition parties have threatened to block ratification of the EU’s new Lisbon Treaty in resistance to...
The Afghan Senate has issued a statement supporting the death sentence imposed on a journalist. Pervez Kambaksh, 23, was convicted last week of downloading and distributing an article critical of Islam. His trial has been criticised by the UN and...
A court in Baku, Azerbijan, has sentenced two journalists to hard labour following their conviction for libel. The charges related to articles they published in 2007 regarding alleged corruption in government circles. Avaz Zeynalli, the editor of...
The situation for journalists in the north of the country is deteriorating, writes Harun Najafizada Police in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz beat up a local journalist last week, apparently because he wrote a story critical of Afghan...
On 19 January, three domestic news and opinion websites were blocked to users in Yemen by the government-owned Internet provider. The sites joined a list of at least five others that have been censored without any official explanation. News site...
In recent weeks there have been many arrests and convictions in Turkey citing the archaic Penal Code which is used to curtail freedom of expression. Here are some of the more alarming cases Professor Attila Yayla was convicted on 28 January of...
New proposals to limit extremist speech could have a significant chilling effect on the Internet, argues Bill Thompson Taking a leaf from its approach to prosecuting predatory paedophiles who use the Internet to establish contact with young people,...
Rashid Majid Al-Sari, editor of biweekly newspaper Al Fatah, was arrested and his computer and personal files confiscated by US troops at his Baghdad home on 18 January. Al Fatah is affiliated to Sayyid Al Shuhada, a Shia party founded in 1991. It...