Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to Tehran's prosecutor calling for 'fair investigations' in the cases of journalist Roxana Saberi and blogger Hossein Derakhshan. Derakhshan, also known as 'Hoder', is shortlisted for the Economist...
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment after being found guilty of spying for the US by a Tehran court. Read more here
The trial of journalist Roxana Saberi, accused of espionage, began in Tehran yesterday. Read more here
Muntadar al Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist convicted after he threw a shoe at President George Bush, has had his jail sentence reduced from three years to one year. Read more here
Why is British government trying to censor documents relating to the Iraq war it has already published, asks Chris Ames A new twist in the tale of Tony Blair’s Iraq dossier has exposed the blatant double standard that the government applies to...
April 6 was named a day of 'anger' by Egyptian Internet users fighting the state of emergency law that prevents them from expressing themselves freely. The authorities have steadily increased the surveillance of bloggers. According to RSF, In 2008...
A youth orchestra from Jenin in the West Bank has been disbanded after its conductor arranged a concert for Holocaust survivors in Israel. Read more here
Newly released documents reveal the very real need for an Iraq inquiry, says Chris Ames As MPs once again debate calls for a full inquiry into the Iraq war, new evidence shows the extent to which intelligence experts raised concerns about the...
The ‘religion’ section in Egyptian national identity cards may now be left blank, after a court ruling on 16 March. Computerised ID cards were introduced in 1995, and forced people to identify themselves with one of the three main religions: Islam,...
Journalist Abdulkarim Al Khaiwani has been pardoned again by President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Al Khaiwani had already been pardoned last September after being sentenced to six months in prison on a charge of ‘collaboration with the rebellion in the...