The Iranian authorities have launched a new webmail service intended to be a substitute for public employees currently using Gmail, Yahoo mail or Hotmail accounts. The new Iran.ir webmail service is easier to control than the foreign services...
Three of the Muslim Brotherhood’s senior leaders, including Mahmoud Ezzat, the Brotherhood's deputy leader, were detained alongside at least 11 other members for engaging in banned political activity. Although the Muslim Brotherhood is banned, its...
Two reporters from The Monitor newspaper, Angelo Izama and Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi Izama lost an appeal to compel the government to release papers relating to oil deals, when the judge decided the information was not in the public interest. Izama...
Mexican politicians are seeking to regulate the use of social media, like Twitter, Facebook or Myspace. They claim Mexican users are using these sites to avoid drunk-driving checkpoints.
Valentin Ceausescu is seeking to ban a play on the trail and execution of the former dictator. "The Last Hours of Ceausescu", written by Milo Rau, depicts the 1989 trial and execution of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife. Valentin's...
Web users will be forced to show their passports or other ID before using Belaruse's internet cafes from July 1. President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's decree also requires ISPs to store data on individuals' web usage for a year and to hand that...
Photographer and documentary film-maker Umida Akhmedova has been charged with slandering and insulting the Uzkbek people. Under articles 139 and 140 of the criminal code the charges carry a maximum sentence of three years in jail. Akhmedova's crime...
Police have referred to prosecutors the case of a father who campaigned over the 2008 melamine milk contamination. Zhao Lianhai, whose own child was made ill by the melamine contamination, is accused of trying to provoke social disorder. He has...
An Egyptian criminal court has convicted Yasser Barakat, editor-in-chief of the weekly Al Mougaz of defamation. The suit was filed by Mustafa Bakri, editor-in-chief of the weekly Al-Osbo’ and member of the Egyptian parliament. Barakat has been...
An Iraqi appeals panel has lifted a ban on hundreds of candidates barred from standing in impending Iraqi election because of their suspected links to Saddam's Baathist party. In a compromise negotiated by President Jalal Talabani, if the disputed...