Thousands of demonstrators took part in an anti-censorship march in the Tunisian capital on Sunday. As the debate between Islamic conservatives and secularists continues in the country, the liberal demonstrators gathered for the march,...
On 9 October, 27 demonstrators protesting attacks against churches were murdered outside Egypt’s state TV building.
Yasmine El-Rashidi asks why the media is silencing one side of the story
Students at Bahrain Polytechnic are being silenced and expelled for social media posts. Sara Yasin reports
Hundreds of protesters have attacked a private television company in Tunisia in protest over the broadcast of the award winning film "Persepolis." The protesters, who believe that the animated film denigrates Islam, attacked the TV station Nessma...
Maikel Nabil Sanad is today entering his 50th day of hunger strike. The Egyptian blogger has been abstaining from food since 23 August in protest of a three-year sentence handed to him by a military court on charges of "insulting the armed forces"...
On 8 October, Actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in jail for her performance in a film exploring censorship of artists in Iran, according to reports from Kalameh.com, an Iranian opposition website. Vafamehr was in...
Iona Craig on the the Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner
Dear Anna Politkovskaya, I am well aware that this honor, which bears your name, is not merely awarded to me personally but rather to the sons and daughters of Syria, and the 3,000 whose blood was spilled over the past 7 months by the same criminal...
International outcry over the sentencing of 20 medics in Bahrain, who treated injured protesters, has led to the announcement of their retrial. Front Line Defenders’
Mary Lawlor explores the stories of others imprisoned in similar circumstances
Several Egyptian writers and journalists published blank columns in the country's newspapers, in protest against the "military interference" of the press. A number of independent writers, including Belal Fadl, Naglaa Bedir and Tarek...