Yemeni journalists walked out from a press conference in protest on Tuesday after the minister Rashad Al-Alimi failed to overturn a recent suspension of publications and blockade of news websites. The Committee to Project Journalists says the...
China's Lou Ye and Iran's Bahman Ghobadi are both at Cannes Film Festival with movies made undercover after they were barred from working by the authorities at home. " Read more here and here
US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has left Iran, and flown to Austria with her family after being acquitted of espionage charges on Monday. A film on censorship in Iranian music, co-scripted by Saberi and directed by 2006 Index on Censorship...
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