Egyptian poet and teacher Mounir Saeed Hanna who had previously been sentenced to three years imprisonment and a US$18,000 bail has been acquitted. He was originally charged with writing a poem that insulted the president. Read more here
Al-Jazeera has resumed its broadcasts in the West Bank, after a ban on it was lifted by the Palestinian Authority. Last week's ban came after a guest on the station accused Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas of collaborating with Israel to have...
An Iranian boycott of Nokia will not stop surveillance, say Leslie Harris and John Morris. But it may make telecommunications companies think twice about doing business with oppressive regimes
More than 100 prominent journalists from 47 countries sent a petition to the Iranian government today calling for the immediate release of Maziar Bahari, Newsweek’s Tehran correspondent, who has been held without charge in an Iranian jail since 21...
On 6 July, 22 of the 25 jailed employees of Kalameh Sabz, the newspaper owned by Mir Hossein Mousavi were released. Three editorial staff are still in jail. Read more here
Anglo-Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis has been released from prison in Tehran. Athanasiadis is believed to have been the only non-Iranian to be held in the crackdown on post-election protests. Read more here
Iranian-Canadian journalist's supposed "confession" suggests serious human rights abuses Iranian news agency Fars reported yesterday that Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari had admitted that his coverage of the Iranian election was biased in...
Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam has been on hunger strike for four days protesting his continued detainment by US forces in Iraq. Media watchdogs have urged Iraq's government to end harassment and intimidation of journalists and are pushing for...
The 21 June ban of Arabic Gulf News has been lifted. The Bahrain newspaper came under fire after criticising the Iranian leadership. Read more Read more here
Seventy university professors who met with opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi in Tehran have been arrested. Read more here