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...
Awale Jama Salad , a photo-journalist for Garowe Online, has been sentenced to six months in jail. He was arrested on 23 December in Somalia’s northern region of Puntland, in connection with photographs he took of the kidnapped French TV journalist...
At least 28 lawsuits have been filed against the journalist Elvira Lobato and the newspaper Folha de S Paulo after the publication of an article critical on the evangelical Christian organisation the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG)....
In a move designed to tackle the threat of extremism on university campuses, the UK government issued updated anti-terrorism guidelines for academics on 22 January. The recommendations state that universities should have a clearly defined freedom...
A young reporter has been found guilty of blasphemy, writes Harun Najafizada in Balkh A primary court in the city of Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan has sentenced local journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh to death. Kambakhsh, 23, a reporter...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has lost an appeal to prevent the release of a document that formed part of the government's case for invading Iraq. The document was written by John Williams, then Head of News at the Foreign Office. It formed...
A judge has ruled that parts of the trial of Wang Yam, who is charged with the murder of biographer Allan Chappelow, should be out of bounds to the press and public. Padraig Reidy reports An Old Bailey court today ruled that evidence in the trial,...