Google lifted some of its restrictions for on-line users in Iran on 21 January. Google unblocked access to Google Chrome, Google Earth and Picasa, previously US trade sanctions had prevented Iranian users from accessing the site. The restrictions...
Afghan police are searching for the men who threw acid on a prominent Afghan TV reporter and author. Tuesday's attack on Razaq Mamoon has left his face disfigured. Mamoon is the author of The Footprint of Pharaoh, which criticises Iranian...
Nyambe Muyumbana of Radio Lyambai and Mwala Kalaluka of the Post newspaper have been charged with sedition. The charges relate to coverage of the protests for greater autonomy in the Western Province of Zambia. The office of Radio Lyambai has also...
Pastor Terry Jones has been banned from entering the UK. Terry Jones is the controversial pastor who attempted to burn the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11.
The chief executive officer and managing director of Business Summit Review was detained on January 11 after the magazine ran a cover cartoon depicting Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni slicing up a cake in celebration of 48 years of Uganda's...
Security officials arrested an Islamist opposition figure in his home in Khartoum on Monday. Hassan al-Turabi was taken into custody a day after he called for a "popular revolution" if the price increases on basic goods were not reversed. In an...
Britain's top civil servant, Sir Gus O'Donnell, has refused permission for notes between former prime minister Tony Blair and former US president George Bush to be published by the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. Head of the Inquiry, Sir John...
Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been detained by authorities. His detention occurred after he was summoned to Evin prison court. One opposition website has claimed his arrest is due to his activities and interviews in...
State authorities have arrested Fouad Rashid, editor of the on-line news website Al- Mukalla. The former assistant editor of Al-Massila has been arrested before, on May 4 2009 he was held by police over his coverage of the protests in south Yemen....
Two more journalists Andrzej Poczobut and Irina Charniauka were detained by the KGB yesterday. The journalists' house was raided and their computers confiscated by the authorities prior to their arrest. Poczobut is a correspondent for the Polish...