Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and their wives have been arrested and taken to the Heshmatiyeh jail in Tehran, it has been reported. The pair were previously put under house arrest after they called for demonstration,...
Journalist Ahmet Topcu has been sentenced to 11 months in jail for denouncing a proposal put forward by the Mayor of Rize, in north east Turkey. The mayor, Halil Bakirci, is currently a member of the incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP)....
A billboard proclaiming a pro-life message has been taken down following complaints. The advertisement was displayed in SoHo on behalf of the Life Always organisation. It showed an African American child accompanied by the message: "The most...
Chief editor Ram Pukar Raut, and editor Pravin Sharma Jha, of the New Times Today have been arrested by police in the Southern Nepalese district of Rautahat. They were charged with having links with a militant underground group, and printing a...
A new decree that places serious restrictions on the media became effective on 25 February. The new decree forces media outlets to reveal their sources, with a fine of $1,000 for not revealing them. It also includes a fine of $2,000 for publishing...
Two Kurdish journalists have been sentenced to ten months of imprisonment each, after attending a demonstration in 2008. Vedat Yilidiz, Dicle News Agency, and Lokman Dayan, Güneydoğu Ekspres, have been convicted of "spreading propaganda for an...
Film blogger Michael Fleming was prevented from attending Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony. Fleming is the correspondent for entertainment news blog Deadline.com, which had published leaked details about the Awards. In response to these...
Kyrgyz journalist Nazgul Kushnazarova was badly beaten near her home on 22 February. None of her possessions were taken, which has given rise to speculation that it was motivated by her professional activities. Kushnazarova is a journalist at the...
Pro-reform demonstrators in the industrial town of Sohar have clashed with police, leading to the deaths of six protesters. The protesters, demanding political and economic reforms, had blocked roads, attacked government buildings, and tried to...
A Ghanaian journalist has filed a complaint with police against Kennedy Agyapong, an opposition MP, for threatening to kill him. The MP's threat against Bature Iddrisu, the managing editor of Bilingual Free Press, was reportedly delivered during a...