A lawyer for US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi says she was convicted of spying for the US partly because she had obtained a classified document, containting a confidential Iranian report on the US war in Iraq - but had not used it. Read more here
Israeli police have arrested journalist Amira Hass upon her return from the Gaza Strip over being in violation of a military ban on Israeli citizens visiting the Palestinian Territories. Read more here
The release of more photos of prisoner abuse by US soldiers is "of no benefit" and may inflame opinion against the US, President Barack Obama has said, retreating on his previous position. Read more here
The Ministry of Defence has banned UK troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from looking at The Sun's page3.com website deeming it inappropriate for soldiers. Read more here
The BBC Trust’s condemnation of Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has the potential to cause serious damage to the corporation’s international standing, says Jonathan Dimbleby The decision by the BBC Trust to censure the BBC’s Middle East editor for...
Pope Benedict XVI has said the suffering of Holocaust victims must never be denied as he visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Read more here
A group of singers from the Israel Defence Forces has become embroiled in a censorship row after their performance in London was cancelled over fears the content was 'political'. Read more here
The imprisonment of Roxana Saberi for 'espionage' is the act of a government obsessed with controlling the media, says Omid Memarian American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was sentenced to eight years in Iran's notorious and feared Evin prison...
Iran's judiciary spokesman has said that the eight-year jail term for Roxana Saberi may be reconsidered on appeal, an indication her sentence will be commuted. Read more here
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Israel of being the 'most cruel and racist regime', sparking a walkout by angry Western diplomats at the UN Durban II conference on racism. Read more here