A new media bill has been approved by the lower house of parliament in Belarus, leaving just a few steps before the bill pass to President Lukashenko for approval. The bill would change registration procedures for the traditional media and extend...
London Metropolitan University has expressed 'regret' at offence caused to China by its recent award of an honorary doctorate to Tibetan religious leader the Dalai Lama in May. A report on state-run China Daily said that the university's...
Italians are protesting against proposed laws that could make investigative journalism almost impossible, writes Cecilia Anesi Today at 6pm Italians will gather in Piazza Navona, Rome, to demonstrate against new bills proposed by Berlusconi’s...
A draft has been passed on its first reading by the Iranian parliament which proposes to apply the death penalty to bloggers and website editors who ‘promote corruption, prostitution or apostasy’. According to article 3 of the bill, judges will be...
Photographer B Byamba Ochir, national radio and TV broadcaster H Erdenebulgan, a Japanese journalist for Fuji TV and a European photographer were hurt by demonstrators in violent protests following the 29 June legislative elections. Only state TV...
As the murder trial continues this week in Turkey, the investigation remains far from complete. Jo Glanville spoke to Dink family lawyer Fethiye Çetin about the case The sixth hearing in the Hrant Dink murder trial takes place in Istanbul today. It...
Members of the Sison family, all reporters for Regional Bulletin, were attacked by gunmen on motorcycle on 1 July in Sariaya, about 60 miles (97 kilometres) south east of Manila. Robert ‘Bert’ Sison, who reported crimes and stories critical of...
Fifty-one Indian journalists who were travelling to cover chief minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Rajasekhara Reddy visit to the Vaddera community were instead taken to the Tiruchanoor police station, in Tirupati, and kept there for three hours on...
A forthcoming film about slain Australian journalists is causing a stir in Jakarta, writes David Jardine The announcement of the coming production of a film about the Balibo Five, the Western journalists allegedly executed by the Indonesian...
Journalist Shiv Malik was today ordered to must give police all tapes of conversations with alleged jihadist Hassan Butt, with whom he had been writing a book. Justice Dyson also ruled that Malik must hand over copies of his notebooks within seven...