The body of a journalist working for a London-based online news site has been discovered by police in Pakistan. Faisal Qureshi, 28, who was working as web-editor for internet publication the London Post, was discovered on Friday morning in Lahore,...
Increasingly strict media regulations are being applied to dating shows in China. Shows such as "If you are the one," which have been highly successful in the country, are being subjected to regulations from the State Administration of Radio Film...
An initially banned horror film has been given an "18" rating, after a number of cuts. Human Centipede 2 was originally banned in the UK for posing a "real risk of harm," in June, but after 32 cuts, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) ...
A draft law has been published by the Slovakian Ministry of Finance which could result in the blocking of some web servers. The bill would mean that web servers that provide online gambling without a license would be put on a list, which would be...
Two citizen journalists face trial in Vietnam today for operating pirate radio to China. Vu Duc Trung and Le Van Thanh face charges of illegally retransmitting radio programmes after they began broadcasting Chinese-language programmes from Sound...
A Radio Free Europe correspondent in Turkmenistan has been sentenced to five years in prison. Dovletmurad Yazguliyev was sentenced yesterday on charges of inciting his sister-in-law to attempt to commit suicide. Yazguliyev was detained on 27...
Wikipedia have shut down their Italian language page in protest against a wiretapping act being proposed to the country's parliament. The proposed law would require websites to publish within 48 hours a correction or comment relating to any content...
The Head of Global News at the BBC has sought government action over the increasing "intimidation" of their staff in Iran. In a BBC blog post Peter Horrocks claimed yesterday that there had been an increase in "anti-BBC rehtoric" following a...
Hamas's interior ministry has adopted new rules restricting the reporting of foreign journalistse. According to the new rules, foreign journalists would have to apply to Gaza's interior ministry in advance, and processing "could take several days"....
Three columnists for the Egyptian independent daily Al-Tahrir will not be publishing their regular columns in protest at what they view as censorship by the current military rulers. Belal Fadl, Omer Taher, and Nagla Bedir have been openly critical...