When Ayatollah Khomeini arrived in Tehran on 1 February 1979, a brief period of freedom for Iranians came to an end. Yassamine Mather looks at the development of the Islamic Republic's suppression of dissent During the last few weeks of the Shah’s...
Amnesty award winning Yemeni journalist Abdul Kareem al Khaiwani has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for 'disseminating pro-rebel propaganda', despite receiving a pardon from the president in September last year. Read more here
Sky News has informed the Disasters Emergency Committee that it will not be broadcasting an appeal for humanitarian aid for Gaza. John Ryley, the head of Sky News, said: 'The absolute impartiality of our output is fundamental to Sky News and its...
Index on Censorship has received a report that Al-Ahram Weekly's correspondent in the West Bank, Khalid Amayreh, was arrested by the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service last night following a interview with Al-Quds TV station in...
Barack Obama has promised to run the most transparent administration in history. He could make a good start by opening the government’s files on torture, says Jameel Jaffer In 1971, the US Supreme Court held that the government could not lawfully...
Harassment of reporters such as Sihem Bensedrine (right) shows that Tunisia leads the way in suppression of free expression, writes Rohan Jayasekera There's an old proverb that ‘a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its...
Coverage of events in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli media has rarely transcended propaganda, writes Dimi Reider When I was in journalism school, we were taught that truth was the first casualty of any war. But in the current seismic violence in the...
Frustration is growing over Israel's refusal to allow journalists into the Gaza Strip. Padraig Reidy reports The Foreign Press Association in Israel has expressed anger over the Israeli government’s continued refusal to allow foreign journalists...
Eleven people were injured, two of them police, during a protest in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa last Thursday. The protesters were calling for a boycott of upcoming elections. Five were injured by police, and a further 18 arrested. Read more here
Bahman Totonchi, a journalist for the former Kurdish weekly Karfto, was arrested on 18 November following a house search by intelligence agents. The authorities had been harassing the journalist since the closure of Karfto on 29 December last year,...