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...
Repé Kabamba, a Congolese freelance journalist, was arrested last Thursday, 7 February, by members of Gabon government security organisation B2. He had been his way to interview the head of the Office of Ports and Harbours (OPRAG), in Libreville,...
On 8 February Yu Huafeng, former head of Guangzhou-based newspaper Nanfang Dushi Bao, was released after four years in jail. Convicted in May 2004 on charges of corruption, he was released following pressure and campaigns led by both international...
The Kenyan government has lifted its month-long ban on live broadcasting one day prior to the hearing of a lawsuit that challenged its legal basis. The ban had been imposed to curb live political reporting after the hotly contested election of...
Since October 2007, Sayed Parvez Kambaksh, a 23-year old Afghan journalist, has been in prison in Balkh province, Northern Afghanistan and sentenced to execution for blasphemy by a local Sharia court in Mazar-e-Sharif. His 'crime' was distributing...
Mansour Dieng, editor of Senegalese magazine Icone, was arrested yesterday, 4 February, after publishing photographs of an alleged gay marriage. Five other men who featured in the pictures were also detained. Homosexuality is illegal in Senegal.