Libyan officials have confirmed that award-winning Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is in their custody after he went missing while reporting from the country. The foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli said that Libyan authorities were...
A BBC news team trying to reach the town of Zawiya were detained, beaten and subjected to mock executions by pro-Gaddafi forces. The team of three were detained on Monday at an army roadblock and taken to a military barracks in Tripoli where they...
Security forces opened fire on demonstrators in Abidjan on Tuesday, killing four people. They were protesting against the deaths of seven female protesters and marking International Women's Day. Ivory Coast has seen an increase in violence...
Security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters trying to join a camp at the University of Sana'a, killing one and injuring 100. The police were accused of using tear gas and rubber bullets, and firing live rounds into the crowd....
The agreed changes to Hungary's controversial media law were adopted on Monday. These alterations were welcomed by the Hungarian media, but have been subsequently dismissed as merely "cosmetic" by critics. Several of the more controversial...
The families of political prisoners detained in Belarus after the 19 December election have instructed a London law firm to launch civil proceedings against the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko. This is the first time that a serving...
Zahid Hussein, a cameraman for Express News TV, was beaten by the police for filming during clashes between armed groups in Peshawar. He was attacked after police noticed him filming them beating a man, Hussein said. He also had his camera...
Suzanne Breen has been awarded damages in her libel case against the National Union of Journalists. She brought an action for defamation against the NUJ when the union's magazine published a member's letter concerning her stance on protecting...
Cuban reporter Pedro Arguelles Moran has been released from prison on parole. He is the last of the journalists jailed during the 2003 "Black Spring" crackdown to be freed. In April 2003 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison under Law 88, for...
Blogger and human rights activist, Sultan al-Khalaifi, has been detained by security forces after criticising the country's censorship rules on his blog. Khalaifi, who is founder of a rights group campaigning on cases of detention in Qatar, has...