Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, a Thai political activist and former editor-in-chief of the Voice of Taksin and Red Power partisan news magazines, was last week charged with two offences of lese majeste for two separate articles deemed critical of the...
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John Moores University withdraws Robert Halfon libel case
Liverpool John Moores university has dropped its libel case against Conservative MP Robert Halfon, who had criticised the university’s alleged commercial links with the regime of Colonel Gadaffi.
Belarus: Draft law prevents citizens gathering in public
A draft law published in Belarus on Friday prohibits the “joint mass presence of citizens in a public place that has been chosen beforehand, including an outdoor space, and at a scheduled time for the purpose of a form of action or inaction that...
Sri Lanka: opposition newspaper editor badly beaten
Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan, editor of the Tamil-language daily Uthayan, was on Friday evening beaten by unidentified men with iron bars in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. Having been rushed to hospital with critical head injuries, he remains...
Somalia: Puntland authorities free jailed reporter
Authorities in Puntland, Somalia's northeastern semi-autonomous region, released reporter Faysal Mohamed Hassan on Sunday. Mohamed, who wrote for the private news site Hiiraan Online, was serving a prison sentence over a story claiming that two...
Syria: forces storm Hama ahead of Ramadan
Syrian forces stormed the opposition stronghold of Hama on Sunday, in a bid to crush demonstrations before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. By this morning (1 August), the death toll had been reported to have reached 84. The head of...
China: journalist detained, beaten after reporting riots
Translated screenshots from journalist Lu Chaoguo's Tencent microblog account reveal his detention and mistreatment by police after reporting on recent riots in Anshun, Guizhou province. The riots were sparked by a "city management” official...
China: social media response to Wenzhou crash challenges censorship
The potent reaction from both Chinese netizens and mainstream media in response to Sunday's deadly train crash in Wenzhou has shown how the state's propaganda machine is being increasingly challenged. The majority of Chinese media (including...
Afghanistan: journalist killed in Taliban attack
Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, a stringer working for the BBC in Afghanistan, has been killed during a Taliban raid on a TV station in Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan. It is unclear whether Khpulwak, 25, was killed by Taliban or Nato forces responding...
Guinea: censorship measures put pressure on RFI
Guinea's state-controlled media regulatory agency this week imposed a "temporary" ban on media coverage of the 19 July attack on the private residence of President Alpha Condé, silencing private radio and television debate programmes in which...
