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,...
Shahvrand-e Emrouz ('Today’s Citizen'), an Iranian reformist magazine, has been temporarily closed by the country’s press watchdog after the unauthorised publication of political content. The magazine had been critical of the present...
A schoolboy in Morocco has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for insulting the country's monarch. The 18-year-old allegedly changed the 'God, Fatherland, King' national slogan on his school blackboard to 'God, Fatherland, Barcelona'. Read...
The independent Tunisian online magazine Kalima has suffered an attack that has completely destroyed its web content, and in a separate but related incident, its editor – Index Award winner Sihem Bensedrine – has been abused by police in the street.
Diyar Abbas Ahmed, a reporter with private news agency Ain, was shot by unidentified gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk on Friday. Read more here
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has said that editor Ibrahim Eissa will not have to serve a two-month jail sentence. Read more here