Selim Sadak, mayor of the city of Siirt in south-eastern Turkey, was sentenced to 1 year's imprisonment on 26 April after being found guilty of "spreading PKK propaganda". Sadak's conviction is came after he used the term "Kurdiastan" in a...
An independent journalist and blogger has been sentenced to 20 months in prison on charges that had not yet been made known. Dania Virgen García was sentenced just one day after her arrest by police on 22 April. Virgen García's blog El blog de...
The Saudi Arabian government broke the Arabic record for the fastest time to block a new website, clocking in at just 15 hours. On 25 April, they blocked a US- based site created by Egyptian activists The Egyptian Association for Change,...
Musician M.I.A's video for her new single Born Free has been banned from Youtube just days after it was released. The controversial video, directed by Romain Gavras, shows American police rounding redheads, and subjecting them to brutal violence....
The newly elected President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, appointed Mervyn Silva as the deputy minister for media and information on Friday. Silva is a politician with a notorious reputation for physically and verbally attacking journalists and...
An amendment to laws on guarding state secrets could force communication providers to cooperate with the country's security apparatus over the leaking or distribution of state secrets. Telecom operators and internet service providers will have to...
International human rights monitors are to investigate the murders of journalists in Honduras. Since the beginning of March, seven reporters have been shot dead in the country. A delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will...
Police in California have been accused of breaking the state’s journalist shield law. On Sunday, officers seized computers belonging to Jason Chen, the editor of technology blog Gizmodo, which released details of Apple’s latest iPhone. State law...
A team of lawyers called for the ban of Arabic classic A Thousand and One Nights on 17 April. The lawyers, from the "Actio popularis" group, filed a complaint with the prosecutor general, demanding that the book be confiscated and its publishers...
Three journalists were killed in two separate incidents on Saturday. Nathan S Dabak and Sunday Gyang Bwede from the Light Bearer, owned by the Church of Christ in Nigeria, were stabbed to death by Muslim rioters in the town of Jos. The town has...