Valderlei Canuto Leandro, host of the show Sinal Verde on Radio Frontera, was murdered by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle in Tabatinga, located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, on 1 September. Local bloggers say Canuto was known for his...
Oregon's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal made by a convicted stalker. John Norman Ryan began stalking a woman in 2005, eventually she took out a stalking protective order which forbade Ryan from making any contact. Ryan breached the order and...
Lebanese blogger Imad Bazzi was denied entry to Egypt on 5 September, 2011, and sent back to Lebanon. Bazzi, who is also director of CyberACT --- an NGO which advocates the usage of social media tools in order to create reforms in the Middle East...
The Metropolitan Police have served a notice of application for a production order on the Guardian seeking "all published and unpublished footage and images between 6 to 10 August with respect to the disorder within London and the area policed by...
A South African court has today found Julius Malema, leader of the youth brigade of the country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), guilty of hate speech. He was ordered to pay costs for singing an apartheid-era song that advocated the...
The FA has brought in a code of conduct to prevent staff, board and council members talking freely to the press. The new "censorship code" insists that the press office are alerted to any media enquiries, and no FA business is to be divulged to the...
Bangladesh's government has passed a new broadcast law which will censor TV programmes and movies. The law, which will go into effect in three months' time, prevents the broadcasting of content depicting non-Muslim holidays, as well as "kiss...
Facebook has agreed to work with the German government on a code of conduct aimed at privacy protection. The code, agreed at a meeting on Wednesday between German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and Facebook's director of policy in Europe,...
The editor of the Cameroon-based Génération Libre, François Fogno Fotso, has been detained since 5 September, and is being pressed to reveal sources for a story written about the alleged corruption of a tax official. Fotso was pushed to reveal the...
Medardo Flores, a Honduran radio journalist who supported former President Manuel Zelaya, was gunned down on the night of 8 September, joining the long list of journalists who have been killed since Zelaya’s forced exile from the country in a June...