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
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