State media in China and Iran have both offered their two cents in response to the riots that have swept the UK over the past three days. A commentator at Communist Party mouthpiece, People's Daily, opined that this sort of chaos is precisely the...
"You say the Armed forces are trying to teach people democracy; this is part of the democracy you speak of, and the Egyptian people know what democracy is and how's practiced, General". Television presenter Dina Abdul Rahman was responding, calm,...
BBC journalist Shaimaa Khalil has been released after her arrest yesterday in Egypt. The BBC has said it is not yet clear whether she faces further action by the authorities. Reports say that Khalil, a producer at the broadcaster's Cairo bureau,...
The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil has been arrested in Egypt while reporting from Cairo. In her most recent tweet, Khalil said she and those with her were "OK" and on the way to see district prosecutors. She had travelled to Tahrir Square after Egyptian...
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.
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...
The theme of clothing and preoccupation with exterior representation continues to dominate every day Iranian existence. We've seen the sustained crackdown on individual expression for Iranian citizens extending to hairstyle and dyeing, eyebrow...
Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan was briefly held at the prison of the Palace of Justice in Beirut on Wednesday for defaming President Michel Suleiman, urging him in a song posted on YouTube last year to "go home." A statement posted on Hamdan's...
Miri Weingarten explains the undemocratic new legislation that has been criticised in Israel and abroad
Index on Censorship calls for the release of film maker Mahnaz Mohammadi and actress and documentary maker
Pegah Ahangarani