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
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