The Italian police have seized the Savona e Ponente blog after it ran a satirical piece entitled "I want to kill Berlusconi". Journalist Valeria Rossi heavily criticised the Italian prime minister, writing that: "You can't feel guilty of wishing...
An appeals court has overturned an 18-year prison sentence handed out to activist Daranee Charnchoengsilapakul. The activist, better known as Da Torpedo, was charged with insulting the monarchy for speeches she made at anti-government rallies in...
Journalists covering the anti-government protests in Yemen have come under attack from the police and pro-government supporters. Many were physically attacked in the course of covering the protests, while others had their equipment seized or...
Young Syrian blogger, Tal al-Mallouhi, has been sentenced to five years in prison by a state security court on espionage charges. Mallouhi, who was 18 at the time of her arrest in December 2009, was accused of spying for the US embassy in Egypt and...
Richard Keys and Andy Gray, the Sky Sports presenters who left the channel following their off-air comments about a female assistant referee, have presented their first Talksport show. Keys said of his new role: "I can have an opinion, rather than...
Guardian journalist, Luke Harding, has been allowed to re-enter Russia after his expulsion from Moscow last week. The Russian officials have renewed his foreign journalist's accreditation and he was able to obtain a single-entry visa on Friday. He...
Prominent Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, and his wife are reported to have been severely beaten by security officials after a secretly recorded video of their house arrest was publicly released. Guangcheng was released in September 2010, after...
On 9 February, two separate attacks were launched on a TV station and a radio station in Coahuila. Technician Rodolfo Ochoa was killed in the shooting at TV station Canal 9. The station stopped broadcasting temporarily, but programming has now...
Ross Dunkley, the Australian editor-in-chief and co-owner of the English daily newspaper Myanmar Times, has been held in Burma on immigration and drug possession charges. His arrest comes at a time when he is engaged in a dispute about the future...
Journalist and blogger Olena Bilozerska has managed to recover some of the equipment and material which was illegally seized from her home in Kiev on 12 January. The police interrogation on 8 February included questions about her sources. The...