Natalie Abbassi is an Iranian-American artist based in North Carolina. In a series of self-portraits entitled "In conflict and consent", Abbassi explores the relationship between her two different identities: This project is a series of self...
Lebanon’s media council now requires all news websites and blogs to register, amid speculation that authorities are preparing to censor the web in the wake of Syria’s uprising. Karl Sharro explores what the move means for free speech in Lebanon
Index on Censorship and six other international rights groups call for the five activists known as the UAE 5 to be released from detention and the charges against them to be dropped
Prolific Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah was detained on Sunday after refusing to be interrogated by a military investigator, insisting on his right to be tried before a civil court. Rasha Abdulla reports Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah...
Former IDF soldier Anat Kamm's 4.5 year prison sentence shows the contradictions of Israel's attitude towards leaks. Elizabeth Tsurkov reports When the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced Anat Kamm to four-and-a-half years in prison for leaking...
Cross posted from Felix Arabia I did not expect that the very same experience would be repeated after five years. After a revolution in which we have ousted the tyrant, I go back to jail? The memories of being incarcerated have returned, all the...
The Paris-based office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly magazine, was petrol-bombed early this morning [2 November] in advance of the publication of an issue "guest-edited" by prophet Mohammed, marking the victory of the Islamist Ennahda Party...
Little Black Fish: Last week, a video entitled Runway In Subway caught my eye. Filmed on the Tehran Metro, it shows a young girl named Shirin Abedinirad boldly entering a train carriage and asking passengers for their rubbish, in order to pin it...
Rachel Greenspan reports from the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, where industry and activists met to discuss free expression online
Tunisians flocked to voting stations yesterday in the country’s first-ever free elections, but only the cultivation of an independent media will safeguard democracy and free expression, writes Rohan Jayasekera