Two prominent pro-democracy cyber activists were last week detained for calling for Middle East style demonstrations in Vietnam. Nguyen Dan Que who is 69, and Nguyen Van Ly who suffers from brain tumour, were detained after criticising the...
A Ukrainian court of appeal has prohibited any further attempts to identify the senior government officials alleged to be behind online journalist Georgiy Gongadze's murder in 2000. The charge was lowered from "commissioned murder" to "murder on...
Two journalists, Nedem Sener and Ahmet Sik, were sentenced to prison on Sunday pending an investigation into allegations that the military attempted to overthrow the Turkish government in 2003. About 60 journalists are currently imprisoned and...
Saudi Arabia's interior ministry has announced a ban on all protests and marches in the kingdom, warning that security forces will come down hard on any demonstrators. Thousands of additional troops have been sent to the restive eastern province of...
Armando José Chicoca, a freelance journalist, has been given a one year prison sentence and fined US $2,100 for reporting on sexual harassment allegations against a top judicial official. His report, aired on Voice of America, included references...
Influential US and British actors and musicians including Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Kelvin Kline, the Pet Shop Boys, Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Tom Stoppard and Samuel West, have been put on a “blacklist” of artists banned...
José Cadena, owner of the weekly "El Vocero" newspaper, based in northeastern Ecuador, faces a lawsuit for publishing allegations of bribery and embezzlement against the local prefect, Orlando Grefa. The newspaper claims it has stopped receiving...
BBC Radio and Radio France International (RFI) are now off air in Ivory Coast. The government of Laurent Gbagbo denies taking action against the radio stations, but in the past the government has blocked both these stations. Pro- and...
Turkish police have detained 10 people, many of them journalists, in the latest crackdown on an alleged secularist network, which is accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. This follows February's high profile raid on the Oda TV news...
The Slovak government has made alterations to a controversial media law which guaranteed politicians, readers and state institutions a right of reply. This was allowed even where allegations made about them were true, but Prime Minister Iveta...