The Bahrain Interior Ministry announced the arrest of four people for defaming public figures on social media today (17 October), with authorities still searching for a fifth. The Acting General Director of Anti-Corruption, Electronic and Economic...
Saudi Arabia has said it is "insulted" by the announcement of a UK Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into the UK's relationship with the Gulf states, in particular Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. In a veiled threat to key trade deals, the...
It's been nearly two years since the mass uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, but Egypt's film makers are still plagued by censorship they say is stifling their creativity. Religion and sex remain high on the censors' list of "taboo...
In Tunisia, politicians and the people are abandoning freedom of expression. In a conservative society, Islamists’ obsession with blasphemy and the opposition’s passivity in defying an illiberal constitutional clause are placing free speech and...
An Iranian court on Sunday convicted the Tehran bureau chief of the Thomson Reuters news agency of "propaganda-related offences" for a video that briefly described a group of women involved in martial arts training as killers. Parisa Hafezi was...
Bahraini police arrested five medics in a set of dawn raids this morning, one day after the nation's highest court upheld their prison sentences in a case international rights groups have condemned as politically motivated. Doctor Ali al-Ekry,...
The women of Egypt played a huge role in the uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. They were on the frontlines, standing shoulder to shoulder with men in Cairo's Tahrir Square, demanding "Bread, Freedom and Social Justice." Their...
In a case that has drawn international condemnation, Bahrain's highest court today upheld prison sentences handed down to nine medics for weapons possession, incitement and taking part in illegal demonstrations last year. One of the doctors was...
Bahraini human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja has been sentenced to two months in prison after she allegedly tore up a picture of the ruler of the Gulf kingdom. Al-Khawaja is the daughter of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the head of the Bahrain Center...
Alber Saber, a young Egyptian blogger and computer science graduate has been arrested and detained for allegedly posting a trailer for an anti-Islam film on Facebook. The trailer for the film "Innocence of Muslims" deemed insulting to Islam and the...